The Genetics Program Records document the administration of the program and provide information about the curriculum, faculty, and students. The records include correspondence, course syllabi and outlines, curriculum vitae for program faculty, lists of program faculty and graduates, meeting minutes, reports, and statistical information.
Administrative records document budget management, curriculum development, nomination of faculty for the program, scholarships, long range planning, program social events, and seminars. The records include data compiled for various reviews and surveys pertaining to student enrollment, the number of graduated students, enrollment by course, and aggregate information about gender and race of students in the program.
Of special note are long range planning materials prepared in 1986 and a self-study conducted in 2006.
The bulk of the records in the collection were created or assembled by Genetics Program Directors Dallice Mills and Walt Ream.
The Genetics Program was established in 1977 within the College of Science at Oregon State University as an interdisciplinary graduate program offering Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in genetics. The Genetics Program faculty were primarily affiliated with departments in the Colleges of Science, Agriculture, and Forestry. As of 2006, fifty Oregon State faculty served in the Genetics Program in addition to teaching and service duties in their home departments. The primary focus of the program was the recruitment and training of graduate students interested in genetic approaches to basic and applied research in the life sciences.
Until the early 2000s, funding for the Genetics Program was provided by the Colleges of Agriculture, Science, Forestry, and Pharmacy. However, by 2005 the College of Agricultural Sciences was the sole source of funds for the Program.
Several faculty served as Directors of the Genetics Program, including Peter S. Dawson, Warren Kronstad, Dallice I. Mills, and Walt Ream.
The Genetics Program was eliminated in 2009.
Collection is open for research.
The materials were transferred from the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program in 2011.
Genetics Program Records (RG 242), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
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