Courses with content in zoology first offered
Microbiology courses become a part of the curricula in the Zoology and Botany departments.
The Biological Division is created, with coursework devoted entirely to plant pathology.
Adeline Stevens, the wife of Frank Lincoln Stevens, becomes the first female faculty member, as an instructor in biology during the 1902-1903 academic year.
Genetics curriculum taught as a component of coursework in Agronomy, Zoology, and Plant Pathology departments.
Maud K. Schaub becomes the first woman to earn an M.S. degree in Biology.
The Division of Biological Sciences is established; the Department of Zoology and Entomology is placed within.
Department of Entomology and Zoology separated into two programs; Department of Zoology, Department of Entomology created
The Department of Zoology moves to Gardner Hall.
Reinard Harkema wrote A Concise History of the Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University at Raleigh (1887-1977). A print edition exists in the library.
The Department of Zoology is renamed the Department of Biology.