On Monday, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved a new Bachelor of Science degree program in neuroscience to be administered in the university's College of Science.

The new program comes on the heels of the board’s approval of degrees in computational modeling and data analytics, microbiology, and nanoscience which were approved in March.

If approved by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the new degree program will fall under the college’s Academy of Integrated Science which will also oversee the computational modeling and nanoscience programs.

Students who enroll in the program will be exposed to a wide range of disciplines including biology, chemistry, economics, mathematics, physics, psychology, and statistics. Graduates will be able to integrate molecular, structural, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of the central and peripheral nervous systems.

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