Whats with the Department of Biological Sciences at Rolla?
The Department of Biological Sciences Department of the Missouri University of Science and Technology sponsors the cDNA Resource Center. The department is a component of the Missouri S&T College of Arts and Sciences, and has 12 faculty members. The department has approximately 125 undergraduate majors and 20 graduate students in Applied Environmental Biology. The Missouri S&T Biological Sciences Program is highly focused on molecular and cellular biology. The department is distinguished by particularly strong interactions with engineering and physical science programs. For over 130 years, the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) has been one of the nation’s premier universities for science, technology, and, of course, engineering. Missouri S&T was founded in 1870 as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy. Missouri S&T was the first technological university west of the Mississippi and one of the first in the United States. In 1964, MSM became known as the Mi