About the Federated Department of Biological Sciences

The Federated Department of Biological Sciences is committed to equal opportunity and respect for all students, staff and faculty, and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment in any form. We welcome a diverse set of voices, because it is right to do so, and because diversity of experience and thought leads to creativity of ideas and, ultimately, to better science.

The Federated Department of Biological Sciences, located in the Central King Building, is housed within the College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

The Department of Biological Sciences at NJIT is Federated with our sister department at Rutgers University-Newark. That opens many wonderful opportunities for students on both sides of Federation, NJIT and Rutgers. We offer a number of joint degrees, including the BA, BS, MS and PhD in Biology. NJIT students can take biology classes at Rutgers, and vice versa, and also get involved in research with faculty from the other institution. Biology students thus obtain the best of both Universities.

At NJIT, biology was upgraded from a program to a department in 2007. In the past several years the number of biology students has increased 10-fold! Our faculty (currently 13 research faculty and four full-time instructors at NJIT, 18 research faculty and four instructors at Rutgers) carries out state-of-the-art research and instruction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. All of our PhD students perform original research in our laboratories, as do many Masters and Undergraduate students. Our research programs are supported by federal, state and private funds, including grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Binational Science Foundation, the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Minority Academic Careers Program, etc.

Biology Professors perform research in such areas as regulation of neural network function, neuro-immunology, waves and diffusion of ions in the brain, respiratory physiology, population dynamics, ecosystems responses to global climate change, etc. For more infomation see this page.

Students who want to combine biology with other subjects will be happy to know that we collaborate with many other departments, such as Mathematics and Chemistry, Neuroscience at Rutgers, etc. In addition, we currently offer three double majors with Math, Chemistry and STS (Science, Technology and Society). Students are encouraged to broaden their interests by conducting inter-disciplinary research.

Please contact us for more information about the Department of Biological Sciences!