The School of Theoretical and Applied Science has been a distinct and incorporate part of Ramapo College since it admitted its first class in 1971. Since its inception, the School of TAS has been committed to excellence in teaching, research, and public service in the sciences and mathematics, and has sought to prepare its graduates not only for professional and academic careers but to be scientifically literate citizens and lifetime learners in an increasing complex and ever changing technological culture.
The School’s curricula are comprehensive, including those designed to promote scientific and mathematical understanding among non-science students at the College. The School of TAS offers twelve undergraduate and graduate programs structured to meet the requirements of national accreditation standards as well as the needs of the contemporary marketplace and community. All students learn the sciences and mathematics in depth from multi-disciplinary perspectives and within the contexts of the liberal arts and of global understanding.
The School of TAS places a strong emphasis on teaching, practice, and public service. It encourages faculty/student collaborative research as a continuing course of study. Its faculty and graduates continue to serve as rich resources to governmental agencies, academic institutions, and private research facilities to promote the public good and educational excellence.
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A Message From the Dean
The School of Theoretical and Applied Science has enjoyed a rich historical record of preparing students for professional and academic careers in the sciences and mathematics. We have grown in the last three decades from an academic unit of just a few hundred students and six majors to one with over twelve hundred students and twelve majors. We have recently added programs in biochemistry, bioinformatics, integrated science studies, engineering physics, and nursing, as a well as a graduate program in nursing education. Fifteen new faculty have been hired in the last two years alone.
The last three years have been particularly encouraging for the School’s vitality and future. The nursing programs were completely assimilated from their prior associations with UMDNJ-SN and are now singularly our programs. The laboratories were thoroughly cleaned of accumulated and obsolete equipment and improved, student study areas were established, and new research facilities for both faculty and students were fashioned from existing space. We now have a newly constructed greenhouse and classroom facility installed with state of the art systems for both teaching and research. We have also received our first substantial donations from those interested benefactors who have dedicated support to particular School of TAS programs for student/faculty research, and have chartered a new TAS Science Advisory Board to work with regional public and private research institutions on joint initiatives and projects.
The close collaboration of the faculty with students has been a continual source of not only pride and success, but one which our graduates historically recall with warmth. That collaborative effort has been institutionalized as the TAS Research Honors curriculum in which students work formally with a faculty research sponsor for a minimum of two semesters and up to fours semesters on a continuing research project. The results have been presented in recent years at the annual TAS Research Symposium, as well as at regional, national, and international professional meetings and conferences. Students, as well, have been able to publish their work, jointly with faculty, in respected peer reviewed journals.
These recent years have witnessed substantial advancements in furthering the academic and institutional ends of the School of TAS for its students and faculty and for its future. More is yet to be done, but I welcome your support and ideas as we continue to promote excellence in preparing our students in the years to come.
Bernard Langer, Dean
School of Theoretical and Applied Science
School of Theoretical and Applied Science Contact Information:
Office: G326
Hours: Mon. – Fri., 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Phone: (201) 684-7734
Fax: (201) 684-7637
The School of Theoretical and Applied Science has enjoyed a rich historical record of preparing students for professional and academic careers in the sciences and mathematics. We have grown in the last three decades from an academic unit of just a few hundred students and six majors to one with over twelve hundred students and twelve majors. We have recently added programs in biochemistry, bioinformatics, integrated science studies, engineering physics, and nursing, as a well as a graduate program in nursing education. Fifteen new faculty have been hired in the last two years alone.
