Many of our faculty participate in the NIH Minorities Biomedical Research Support Program and other minorities programs. Teaching Efforts and Productivity Student Degree Work. The Program had 31 majors this year, comparable to last year. Eight graduate and 24 undergraduate students declared minors in Molecular Biology. During the year the Program generated 429 student credit hours, comparable to last year.
Current enrollments reflect gender and ethnic parity.
Undergraduate minors increased. One faculty was recognized this year with a university teaching award. A new course was introduced with emphasis on bioinformatics and a graduate minor in bioinformatics is under development. Three Molecular Biology graduate students received awards for excellence in teaching or research. The new space will be providing about 4,200 sq.