The University of Kansas is a major educational and research institution with some 29,000 students and more than 1,900 faculty members who are dedicated to serving the State of Kansas and the nation. The University includes the main campus in Lawrence; the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas; the Regents Center in Overland Park, Kansas; a clinical campus of the School of Medicine in Wichita, and educational and research facilities throughout the state. The University has 14 major academic divisions: the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the schools of Allied Health, Architecture and Urban Design, Business, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Journalism and Mass Communication, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Welfare.
The graduate program of the Department of Geology involves 17 full-, part-time, or active emeritus faculty members, 12 adjunct faculty members, 3 research faculty, and some 50 graduate students from all parts of the country and several foreign countries. These numbers allow a great deal of student-faculty interaction in teaching and research. Both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are awarded. The Department has been quite successful in placing its graduates in academia and industry. The Department has close ties with a number of research units that are a part of The University, including the
Kansas Geological Survey , the
Paleontological Institute , the
Natural History Museum , the Water Resources Center , the
Energy Research Center , the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project , and the
Center for Research, Inc. In addition, some students and faculty members work closely with the
Water Resources Division of the U. S. Geological Survey , a branch of which is located in Lawrence, Kansas.
approved August 30, 2000
The mission of the Department of Geology is:
- to educate undergraduate and graduate students in the fundamentals of theoretical and applied geological sciences so that they will have the knowledge and skills to adapt as the science and their personal and professional situations change,
- to provide education in the geological sciences to other parts of the The University and its cooperating institutions,
- to do exemplary basic and applied research in the geological sciences, to collaborate with other segments of the University and its cooperating institutions, and to provide professional service to society.
