Departments and programs

The Faculty houses four academic departments: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology-Biochemistry. The number of students in the faculty is over nine hundred with over ninety faculty members.

The academic departments offer various undergraduate degrees in Mathematics, Mathematical Economics, Biology, Chemistry, and a degree in Physics with minors in Mathematics, Computer Science, or Electronics. Additionally, minors are offered in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry.

Graduate programs

On the graduate level, the faculty offers a Master program in Medical Laboratory Sciences and participates in other graduate programs such as Applied Statistics, Scientific Computation, Water and Environmental Sciences, and Economics. Other programs will soon be introduced at the graduate level.

Research Interests

Physics: High temperature superconductors, Protein dynamics, Particle physics and Nanotechnology.
Chemistry: Bioorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry , Molecular orbital calculations, and advanced analytical methods.
Biology: Biodiversity in Palestine , Heavy metal contamination, neurophysiology , genetics, and issues in agriculture.
Mathematics: Ring Theory, Topology, Game Theory, Statistics, Microeconomics, Dynamical Systems, coalgebra, and corings and comodules.
Medical laboratory Science: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Biology.

Community Outreach

Faculty members are involved in the development of school curricula, offering analytical services and consultancies to various companies and institutions, as well as arranging and participating in various local conferences on teaching, research and services. The Faculty also provides clinical laboratory services to students and the community.