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Message from the Department Head

Welcome to the Department of Biology at Valdosta State University. We have continued our second year of double digit growth in the number of biology majors enrolled at VSU. We started the fall 2007 semester with about 750 majors which made us the largest undergraduate major on campus. Our MS in Biology degree program is officially only one year old but we already have 17 graduate assistants enrolled and will be graduating our first group of students from that program in spring and summer of 2008. The fact that so many students choose our programs is a clear testament to the quality of the degrees students earn here at VSU and also to the quality of the faculty we have here in the Department of Biology.

We hired three new biology faculty this year which brings us to a total of 27. We are in the process of hiring a few more to join us next fall. One new student club has been created, the Student Society for Stem Cell Research. This gives us a total of three student clubs housed within the department. We hope you will follow the link below for students and get involved with these clubs.

If I can be of any help to you as a prospective or current student please e-mail me at rlgannon@valdosta.edu.

Robert L. Gannon, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology