West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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ROBERT BARCLAY DUSTMAN, Ph.D. Dean The Graduate School was formally estabHshed in 1930 but beginnings in graduate education reach back half a century earlier. By 1900 approximately 120 advanced degrees had been awarded and by 1930 this number had been increased to 500. The school presently comprises a group of about 50 departments and divisions offering graduate work. The student may elect a major in any one of 53 different fields for master ' s degrees and In nine different areas for doctor ' s degrees. The current enrollment of graduate students in residence in the first semester was 463. In addition to the students in residence there is another group of 400 or more enrolled for work by extension in the various extension centers of the state. GRADUATE SCHOOL SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY J. BEN ROBINSON, D.D.S. Dean The School of Dentistry is the youngest member of the University group of colleges, ft was created by an Act of the West Virginia Legislature passed March 9, 1951. The physical facilities of the dental program are included in the new Basic Sciences Building of the Medical Center. The curriculum of the school par- allels that of the School of Medicine in the teaching of basic biological sciences. The school began this year with a freshman class of thirty students. It wishes to salute the students of other collleges, schools and divisions of the Uni- versity and looks forward to cordial relations with them in the coming years.

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