Beginning the spring 2011 semester, The University of Texas at El Paso will offer a new undergraduate degree in biochemistry. Students who earn the new biochemistry degree will be prepared to go to medical school or a graduate program on their way to careers as doctors or with pharmaceutical companies discovering new treatments for disease. Since 2001, the chemistry department at UTEP has grown from 46 undergraduates to more than 200 undergraduates and 100 graduate students.

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