In the Chemistry degree, students may pursue a Molecular Biotechnology concentration. In each of these academic tracks, special courses have been designed, approved by the UNCP Faculty Senate and carried on into implementation. In both these tracts, extensive laboratory courses are the main requirements. It is our strategy in the next five years to continue these efforts with steady, measurable improvement. Current faculty are sufficient to continue these programs, but this is contingent on continued funding from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
Departmental committees oversee the implementation of the program.
Over the course of the past five years that UNCP has built its biotechnology program, the equipment holdings have multiplied. A student graduating from UNCP in the sciences has the advantage of being able to receive training in a wide range of techniques, and on a complete suite of equipment and instrumentation. A survey of the laboratories offered by either department will give insight on the exceptional equipment holding at UNC Pembroke. The advanced laboratory courses requires some fairly sophisticated equipment. The challenge of identifying good students and bringing them into the biotechnology sciences at UNCP is ongoing.