The program established the National Biotechnology Information Facility at NMSU, which is serving as a new recruitment tool. Teaching Efforts and Productivity Student Degree Work. The Program had 32 majors this year, comparable to last year. Ten graduate and 20 undergraduate students declared minors in Molecular Biology. During the year the Program generated 417 student credit hours, comparable to last year.
Current enrollments reflect gender and ethnic parity.
Undergraduate minors increased. Two faculty were recognized this year with college teaching excellence awards. A new course was introduced with emphasis on bioinformatics. We organized and hosted the Second Zia Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology in January emphasizing Emerging and Diverging Microbes. A program to recognize Molecular Biology graduate student excellence with annual awards was developed and implemented.