The UTK Microbiology department is part of the school's College of Arts and Sciences. Its faculty members teach microbiology to students at the different campuses of the University of Tennessee. Microbiology is one of three Life Sciences departments composing UT's Division of Biology within the College of Arts and Sciences.
As of 2011, SUNY Cortland's Biological Sciences Department had 14 tenured faculty who not only teach but produce academic materials and lead undergraduates in research. The school offers graduate programs in Biology, Biomedical Sciences, and Conservation Biology.
The microbiologists at Towson teach and research the physical and chemical bases of life. The faculty is active in the research of nanotechnology, polymer chemistry, chemical biology, organic synthesis, groundwater contamination and molecular synthesis.
SUNY Oswego offers microbiologists the opportunity to teach and research microbiology, plant ecology, animal behavior, freshwater biology, physiology, plant development and cellular biology. The department is housed at the 125-acre Rice Creek Biological Field Station.