Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford

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Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
Merged intoDepartment of Zoology
SuccessorDepartment of Biology
Dissolved2022
Websitewww.plants.ox.ac.uk

The Department of Plant Sciences, at the

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. From 1 August 2022 its functionality merged with the Department of Zoology to become the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford.[1]

Herbaria

The department housed the Oxford University

Herbaria that consists of two herbaria:[2]

In total the collections contain 800,000 specimens

Oxford Botanic Garden. The herbaria are now housed under the title of Department of Biology
.

History

Forestry was an important part of the university under the name of the Imperial Forestry Institute, from 1924;[4][5] later the Commonwealth Forestry Institute from 1939.[6] The Oxford Forestry Institute was incorporated into the Department of Plant Sciences in 2002,[7] and research relating to forestry was undertaken under that name until 2022 when the department merged with the Department of Zoology to form the Department of Biology.[1] Some students were Imperial Forest Service students, who came from many parts of the British Empire to qualify as foresters before they returned home.[8] It ran a post graduate MSc forestry course for many years: Forestry and its Relation to Land Use,[9] until 2002.[7]

In January 2021, the

Experimental Psychology and Biology.[11] It will replace the Tinbergen Building on South Parks Road, which was closed and demolished when asbestos was discovered in 2017.[12] The building will feature multiple laboratories, teaching and testing spaces providing research facilities for 800 students and 1200 researchers. Work is expected to start in June 2021, with the building opening in September 2024.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Oxford launches new department to further bioscience teaching and research | University of Oxford". ox.ac.uk. August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  2. ^ Bloom, Michael. "26 November 2015 – Oxford University Herbarium". abnats.org.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Oxford Plant Systematics". Herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  4. doi:10.1038/137573a0
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  5. doi:10.1038/139731a0
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  6. ISBN 978-0-19-822974-2
  7. ^
    doi:10.3366/brs.2009.0007
    . Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  8. ^ Excerpta e statutis universitatis Oxoniensis: titulus XIV, de vestitu et habitu scholastico; titulus XV, de moribus conformandis; titulus XXIII, of women students. Oxonii: e Prelo Clarendoniano, [1925], pp. 374-75
  9. ^ [1] Archived 3 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "The Life and Mind Building". lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk.
  11. ^ Lowe2021-01-21T06:00:00+00:00, Tom. "Wates gets planning green light for Oxford uni's biggest ever project". Building. Retrieved 10 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ a b "University of Oxford's £200m life sciences building plan approved". BBC News. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

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