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The Faculty of Agriculture and Biology is composed of the following units, i.e., 8 Chairs and 9 Institutes, an Analytical Laboratory for the healthiness of agro-based materials and the environment, as well as a field experimental station in Krasne.

Agriculture

There are 4 professors, 11 post-doctoral degree holders, 48 doctors, 8 Masters' degree holders and 23 technical staff.

• Department of Agroecology - head prof. dr hab. Czesława Trąba
  
• Department of Economics of Food Management - head prof. dr hab. Stanisława Okularczyk
  
• Department of Crop Production - head prof. dr hab. inż. Dorota Bobrecka-Jamro
  
• Department of Agricultural Processing and Science of Commodities - head prof. dr hab. inż. Marek Zin
  
• Department of General and Physical Chemistry - head prof. UR dr hab. Maria Droba
  
• The Chair of Plant Physiology - head prof. UR dr hab. Bernarda Piskorz-Bińczycka
  
• The Chair of Soil Science and Environmental Chemistry - head prof. UR dr hab. inż. Janina Kaniuczak
  
• Department of Production Engineering - head prof. UR dr hab. inż. Stanisław Sosnowski
  
• Department of Animal Husbandry - head prof. UR dr hab. Katarzyna Cywa-Benko
  
• The Chair of Natural Theories of Agriculture - head prof. UR dr hab. inż. Joanna Kostecka
  
• The faculty's Laboratory - supervises prof. UR dr hab. inż. Janina Kaniuczak
  
• The faculty's Field Experimental Station - supervises dr inż. Bogusław Rząsa

Biology

There are 6 professors, 4 post-doctoral degree holders, 13 doctors, 17 Master's degree holders and 4 technical staff.

• Department of Agrobiology and Environmental Protection - head prof. dr hab. Roman Reszel
  
• Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology - head prof. dr hab. Tomasz Biliński
  
• Department of Metabolic Engineering - head prof. dr hab. Andrij Sybirny
  
• Department of Zoology - head prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Puszkar
  
• Department of Environmental Biology - head prof. UR dr hab. Krzysztof Kukuła
  
• The Chair of Botany - head prof. UR dr hab. Lucyna Puszkar
  
• The Chair of Comparative Analysis of Vertebrates and Anthropology - head prof. UR dr hab. Anna Radochońska

Specialities at the Department of Agriculture

Environmental Management
Bachelor's Full-time Studies
  Studies last for 8 semesters with a possibility
  of continuing on to full-time Master's studies
Bachelor's Part-time Studies
  Studies last for 8 semesters with a possibility
  of continuing on to part-time Master's studies

Food Processing
Bachelor's Full-time Studies
  Studies last for 8 semesters with a possibility
  of continuing on to full-time Master's studies
Bachelor's Part-time Studies
  Studies last for 8 semesters with a possibility
  of continuing on to part-time Master's studies

Agricultural Ecology with Agro-tourism (Combined)
Bachelor's Full-time Studies
  Studies last for 8 semesters with a possibility
  of continuing on to full-time Master's studies
Bachelor's Part-time Studies
  Studies last for 8 semesters with a possibility
  of continuing on to part-time Master's studies

Commerce and Services
Bachelor's Full-time Studies
  Studies last for 8 semesters with a possibility
  of continuing on to full-time Master's studies
Bachelor's Part-time Studies
  Studies last for 8 semesters with a possibility
  of continuing on to part-time Master's studies

Specialties at the Biology Department

Environmental Biology
Experimental Biology
Agro-Ecology
Hydro-biology and Aquatic protection

Full-time Master's Studies (5 years)
Full-time Higher Vocational Studies (3 years)
Part-time Master's Graduate Studies

The faculty of Agriculture and Biology, which was created 1 April 2005 by the decision of the Minister of Science and Education, is composed of the biological sciences carved from the department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences as well as the agricultural studies from the department of Economics. Presently, the department employs 107 academic staff of which 24 are fully independent Readers. Professor Czesław Puchalski has been the head of Agriculture and Biology since 1 September 2005.

The two-tier level of education was introduced during the academic year 2006/07. Students take a 3 or 3.5 year first level Bachelor's studies that entitles them to continue on to their 1.5 or 2 year second level Master's studies.

The department of Agriculture and Biology is rooted in Natural and Applied Sciences.

Our research priorities cover the following fields:

• Research into the natural environment in areas of health, ecological food production and sustaining biological diversity;
  
• Food processing technologies;
  
• Molecular biology;
  
• IT in Biology.

Major fields of research in ecological issues include the following

• Analysis of the causes, functions and changeability in the diversity of biological ecosystems
  
• Mechanisms that sustain the diversity of soil organic groups, analysis of the influence of the diversity of meadow plant groups on soils' fauna
  
• The influence of soil processes on the invasion ability of various plant species, infections and pests
  
• Researching nitrogen circulation in the environment
  
• The influence of environmental management on flora and fauna
  
• Bio-chemical evolution of plants in an environment contaminated with heavy metals

Researches in Bio-diversity cover the following areas

• Genetic grounds and mechanisms for sustaining bio-diversity
  
• Bio-diversity and the stability of ecosystems with respect to sustainable development
  
• Research into food production without disrupting the bio-diversity of the natural environment
  
• Research focused on the bio- and geo-diversity in the Bieszczady region
  
• Flora and fauna transformations, including water circulation in south-east Poland
  
• Researches into the results of extreme natural phenomena (huge down-pours, floods or catastrophic geo-morphological processes) in transforming natural environments

The Faculty undertakes synthetic researches in natural sciences which cover the following issues

o The development of ecological farming and the introduction of products with high nutritive value
o Research into eco-physiological factors in the production of high quality food under sustainable agriculture
o Crop and forestry protection
o Environmental management
o Landscaping and structural research using Roentgen structural analysis, Spectro-photometry as well as nuclear magnetic resonance
o Bio-engineering, bio-mechanics, bio-sensory, ultra-sounding and physical acoustics
o New resources and renewable energy sources

International co-operation
Various units of the Agriculture and Biology Faculty are in co-operation with the following foreign institutions:
Institute für Geographie und Geologie Universität Greifswald (Germany)
Institute of Cell Biology NAN Ukraine - Lvov
Karl-Franzens Universität - Graz (Austria)
Laboratorie Physiologie Végétale et Forestiére - Nance (France)
Macquarie University - Sydney (Australia)
Oklahoma State University (USA)
Palack University Olomouc, Department of Botany (Czech Republic)
Slovak Academy of Science, Department of Botany and Genetics Faculty of Natural Science-Nitra (Slovakia)
The Natural History Museum - London (Great Britain)
Thessalonica University (Greece)
Universität Dusseldorf (Germany)
Université P. Sabatier Laboratoire Physiologie Végétale - Toulouse (France)
Université Henri Poincaré - Nance (France)
Department of Biology University of Czerniowce (Ukraine)
Socrates/Erasmus Programme:
Szent István University in Gödöllő (Hungary)
University of Oradea (Romania)
University of Timisoara (Romania)
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
Coordinator for International Programmes - prof. UR dr hab. Krzysztof Kukuła.

Under Resolution no. 39/2006 PKA (The State Accreditation Committee) of 5th January 2006 on the "Assessment of the Quality of Education" the Department of Biology received a positive assessment.