The Department of Environmental Science, University of Kalyani was established as a School under recommendation of UGC in 1985. Since then, this department is working on Collection & Dissemination of Environmental Knowledge among the people by building up human expertise through M.Sc, M.Phil & Research programmes. The Department has six permanant faculty members with diverse reseach areas – from Biodiversity, Ecology, Geology, Atmospheric Science, Pollution Chemistry upto Cell signalling & Toxicology, each having separate laboratory. The faculties undertake consultancies & projects in collaboration with Industry.
The Department has an ENVIS Centre on Environmental Biotechnology (MoEF Supported) since 2002. It is also a part of Sustainable Development Network Programme (SDNP) since the year 2005.
Thus, education, research, networking & industry-institute relationship – all of these factors are taken care of in the Department of Environmental Science, University of Kalyani…..
….Welcome to the Green Domain of Environmentalism….