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College of Science
The College of Science is a newly-established college of Northwest A & F University--previously the teaching section of Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics of the former National Northwest Junior College of Agriculture and Forestry founded in 1934. In the course of 70 years’ reform and development, it had developed into what used to be the Basic Course Section, the Basic Science Department and College of Life Science. Under the leadership of the university authority, with concerted efforts made through generations, the three former teaching units gradually evolved into today’s more complex educational entity. Apart from providing fundamental science education to students of all majors on campus, it has also developed its own undergraduate programs, graduate programs and research centers.
The college is a science-oriented college dedicated primarily to basic researches, applied basic researches and fundamental course instruction. Among its 176 faculty members, there are 137 full-time faculty, 20 professors and researchers, 10 doctoral supervisors, 31 associate professors, 6 senior experimentalists, 36 lecturers, and 45 teaching assistants; 4 supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University by the Ministry of Education, 5 “Master Teachers” of the university; and 1 “Master Teacher” in Shaanxi Province” . Currently the College has three departments: Department of Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Chemistry, and Department of Applied Physics. There are 3 university-level research centers: Mathematical Model and Data Analysis Center, Natural Pharmaceutical Chemical Research Center and Pullution Control Center, and two university-level laboratory centers: Physical Meteorology and Chemistry. The college is also authorized to confer doctoral degrees in both Bio-physics and Chemical Biology, master’s degrees in Bio-physics, Chemical Biology, Applied Chemistry and Applied Mathematics, and bachelor’s degrees in Applied Chemistry and Information & Computing Science. It enrolls 729 full-time students, including 137 Ph.D. students and 592 undergraduates.
The college not only offers Information & Computing Science, Applied Chemistry etc for students majoring in these subjects, but also provides theoretical and experimental teaching of 40 fundamental programs for all the undergraduates and graduate students in the university. There are 52 teaching laboratories for various purposes, and the total asset reaches 6.3 million yuan.
Currently the college is engaged in 18 scientific research programs at provincial or ministerial level, approximately 20 programs of the University Foundations for top talents and junior excellent teachers, and the total funds amount to 4 million yuan.