Princeton University. Dept. of Biology.

Biology was taught intermittently at Princeton since 1830, however it was not until the formation of the School of Science in 1870 that the subject was consistently included as part of the curriculum. In 1904, University President Woodrow Wilson formed the Department of Biology, appointing Edwin Grant Conklin as the first full-time chair of the department four years later. With the completion of Guyot Hall in 1910, the Department of Biology was given an official home, which it soon outgrew after a period of rapid growth. In 1960 the Moffett Laboratory was added to the building, and a biology library was formed soon after. Over the years the course of study offered by the Department of Biology has changed frequently to reflect advances in the field and the particular strengths of faculty, and in 1990 the Department was divided into the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the Department of Molecular Biology.