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Profile of the School
The University of Madras opened the post graduate extension centre at Madurai during the year 1962.The Zoology Department had two illustrious faculty members:(Late) Prof.S.Krishnasamy; and S.V.Job. When the post graduate extension center of Madras University blossomed into nascent Madurai University in 1966,a new epoch in biology education began. Prof.S.Krishnasamy believed what really mattered in biology education was the totally of the living state rather than rigid and watertight compartmentalization of knowledge into botany and zoology.
Therefore first ever integrated department of biological sciences came into being with induction of additional faculty representing plant sciences,microbiology,biochemistry,immunology,ecology,molecular biology and behavioural sciences. consequently the department grew in science. Consequently the department grew in size ,stature, expertise and interests, so much so a composite school of Biological Science(SBS) was established in1977.It has produced six vice chancellors, four Bhatnagar awardees ,seven TANSA awardees, fellows of National and international Science Academies and members in national funding agencies.
