updated November 18, 2009

Active Learning: Senior biomedical engineering students Darci Thomas (top, left) and Didem Tunc work with Applied Biology Professor Renee Rogge examine bone experiments in one of the Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering's state-of-the-art campus laboratories.

• Rose-Hulman’s applied biology major is the only biology program in Indiana to require a year-long, 12-credit undergraduate research experience. Also, Rose-Hulman has the only biology bachelor's of science or bachelor's of arts degree program in Indiana that requires mathematics through differential equations to earn a biology degree. Our program exceeds the Bio2010 math requirements for the National Academy of Science’s National Research Council.
   
• Applied biology and biomedical engineering majors make up 109 of Rose-Hulman’s 350 female students. Also, more than half of the department’s students are female (109 of 214) and half of the ABBE faculty members are female (six of 12).
   
• More than 30 percent of Rose-Hulman’s applied biology students go on to attend graduate school. Alumni are currently pursuing advanced biology degrees at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, Purdue, Johns Hopkins, Oregon State, Arizona State and other institutions. These students are attending graduate school with full tuition and living expenses stipends paid by their programs.
   
• More than 20 percent of Rose-Hulman's applied biology students go on to study medicine, optometry, dentistry or law. Alumni are pursuing advanced study at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Ohio State University School of Medicine, Arizona School of Dentistry and other colleges. One student pursuing medicine received the highest award for IU graduate students –- the $20,000 John H. Edwards Fellowship –- for the 2009-10 academic year.