Throughout history, scientific discovery has driven much of human progress. Today, as our technological capacity increases, the pace of scientific discovery is accelerating, and new products and processes are being invented that will change the world in ways we can scarcely imagine.
The College of Science has already built a promising foundation for future success, a foundation formed by an impressive portfolio of departments such as biological sciences, chemistry, economics, geosciences, mathematics, physics, psychology, and statistics.
The college is dedicated to fostering a research intensive environment and offers programs in many cutting edge areas, including those in nanotechnology, biological sciences, information theory and science, and supports the university’s research initiatives through the Institute for Critical Technologies and Applied Sciences, and the Institute for Biomedical and Public Health Sciences. The College of Science also houses programs in intellectual property law and pre-medicine.
The college employs more than 300 faculty members, many of whom are internationally recognized in their field. It offers a challenging academic environment for its 3,300 students and supports groundbreaking research in areas such as nanoscience, infectious diseases, developmental science, computational science, cell biology, and biostatistics.
Lay Nam Chang
Dean
College of Science
108 College of Science Administration Building (0405)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-7515
laynam@vt.edu
