College of Arts and Sciences

COLLEGE O F ARTS AND SCIENCES

With 50 undergraduate majors and five graduate programs, the College of Arts and Sciences is our largest and oldest academic division. Not only is the college the foundation for Scranton’s traditional liberal arts programs, but it also includes our renowned science programs, taught in the cutting-edge Loyola Science Center.

AT-A-GLANCE 1,635 undergraduates • 15 academic departments • 50 majors • A wide range of minors, concentrations and interdisciplinary programs • Five-year MBA option for many majors Internship opportunities • Four-year professional development “Passport” program

Scranton engineering students achieve top finishes in prestigious regional and national engineering competitions.

Matthew Reynolds

Class: 2018 Majors: Biology and Biophysics Hometown: Apalachin, New York

THE GENESIS OF A RESEARCH SCIENTIST

After he graduates from a fully-funded graduate program at The Rockefeller University, Matthew plans to pursue a career as a research scientist. In both his majors at Scranton, biology and biophysics, he combined rigorous learning in the classroom with a wide range of high-level research experiences. Matthew was also the recipient of a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

On individualized attention

“Because classes are small, professors can give individual attention to students and challenge them at the appropriate level. The friendly relationships with professors, and with students, allowed me to thrive.”

On pursuing research

“I began doing research in the spring of my freshman year. That experience led to a competitive summer internship with the Wadsworth Center, a part of the New York State Department of Health. There, I researched flagella and algae. I also researched yeast in collaboration with the research group at the South China University of Technology. We were able to have our research published in a peerreviewed scientific journal.”

On further research experience

“On my return to Scranton, I was able to continue my summer research project, collaborating with my mentor at the Wadsworth Center and a professor at The University of Scranton. We sent research samples to the group in China and communicated with them over Skype. This work led to two additional research internships at the Wadsworth Center.”

MEET OUR FACULT Y

Marc Seid, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biology B.S., M.S., Brigham Young University Ph.D., Boston University

EXCELLENCE DOWN TO A SCIENCE

Dr. Marc Seid teaches biology and neuroscience in the College of Arts and Sciences. He values his time and close relationships with his students—whether teaching in the classroom, collaborating in the lab or conducting research together in the field.

On interacting with students closed doors. Not here. It’s “The way our Loyola Science inspiring to walk down the halls Center is constructed is a and see all that’s going on.” big advantage, with the professors’ offices intermingled On research in the field among the student study “I take students to Panama and spaces. Because of the close Florida each year to do outdoor proximity, students and facresearch. In Panama, our ulty can interact much more research ranges from the often than they would in a social organization of insects, traditional science building.” to bats’ foraging techniques, to the reproduction of frogs. On active, transparent science In Florida, we dig holes and “With all the glass walls, stuchop into logs to collect ants for dents are able to see other research that we’ll do back in students and professors the lab. We want our students working together in the labs. to be critical thinkers and to At many other universities, be discovery oriented. These all lab work happens behind field experiences teach a lot.”

Our state-of-the-art Loyola

In the Princeton Review’s list of “BEST SCIENCE LABS” The University of Scranton ranked #7 nationally.

DID YOU KNOW

> The 200,000-square-foot, Gold

LEED certified space is one of the most dynamic, innovative science buildings in the country.

> Laboratories are designed with large glass windows and walls, making them visible to all.

> The 14-inch Meade LX200 telescope allows auto alignment and acquires digital images of stellar objects.