Welcome to the website of the Department of Biological Sciences.  Biological Sciences is housed within the College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

But the Department is federated with Rutgers University-Newark.  That means students are free to take biology classes at Rutgers, too. When they graduate or finish a degree program, students receive diplomas issued jointly from NJIT and RU.  Biology students thus get the best of both universities: NJIT, a technical school that emphasizes the quantitative and technical aspects of biology, and Rutgers, a liberal arts school whose biology classes focus on the cellular and molecular aspects of biology, as well as ecology and evolution

At NJIT, biology has recently been upgraded from a program with a small enrollment into a department -- one with nearly 200 enrolled students. Those students, moreover, have many opportunities to do research.  The department has various research programs supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Binational Science Foundation, the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Minority Academic Careers Program.

Biology professors do research in various areas, including neural networks, neuro-immunology, waves and diffusion of ions in the brain, population modeling of the Cape Seaside sparrow and the spatio-temporal dynamics of wading birds in Everglades National Park..

Students who want to fuse biology with other subjects will be happy to know that biology professors collaborate with professors from other departments, such as Mathematics and Chemistry. In addition, several double majors exist now and others are being created.  Students are encouraged to cross-fertilize their interests by conducting inter-disciplinary research.