GENERAL

Visiting Address:
Kontraktova ploscha.,
NaUKMA Building 3, Office 216

Tel/Fax: + 38 044 425-5188
E-mail: vyshenska@ukma.kiev.ua

Iryna Vyshenska, Dean Sergiy Isaev, Deputy Dean Olena Kustenko, Faculty Coordinator	Tamara Ternovska, Head of the Department of Biology Sergiy Kretynin Department Coordinators
	Vitaliy Zamostian, Head of the Department of Environmental Studies Maryna Kovaliova, Department Coordinator
	Petro Golod, Head of the Department of Physics and Mathematics Ulia Bernatska, Department Coordinator
	Mykhailo Bryk, Head of the Department of Chemistry Ludmyla Lytvyn, Department Coordinator

History and Structure

The Faculty started functioning in 1992, when the first students were enrolled to the Department of Biology. In 1994, the Department of Physics and Mathematics was created, in 1995 - the Department of Ecology, and finally in 2000 - the Department of Chemistry. The Faculty offers degrees programs in Biology (Bachelor and Master levels), Chemistry (Bachelor and Master levels), Environmental Science (Bachelor and Master levels), and Physics (Bachelor and Specialist levels).

Faculty Peculiarities

• During their first two years all the Natural Science majoring students acquire fundamental preparation in Biology, Ecology, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science. At the same time a strong necessity for Natural Science specialists to have a broad understanding of social implications of the discoveries in any of these fields, as well as political, economic and also moral effects of the human actions on the environment is emphasized. For this reason the Natural Sciences students are required to choose certain amount of courses in humanities and social sciences.

• Department of Biology offers its students a comprehensive preparation in Biology as well as modern approaches to the field, combining it with the overview of the relating disciplines (e.g. chemistry, physics, and mathematics). Putting a strong emphasis on the students' involvement into the research Department actively cooperates with Experimental Botanic Institute (Czech Republic) and many Ukrainian research institutions, among which Research Institutes of Botany, Zoology, Physiology, Cellular Biology, Biochemistry, and the Institute of Gene Engineering.

• Department of Physics and Mathematics' 5-year Specialist's program in Physics has two streams: in General Physics and in Physics of Biological Systems. Both streams offers profound preparation in Mathematics, 2-level studies of Physics (General Physics with the emphasis on Phenomenological Aspects and the level of Theoretical Physics), and experimental methods of modern Biophysics. Advanced students can apply basic knowledge and concentrate on a narrower subfield (e.g. Physics of Biological Systems, Molecular Biophysics).

• Department of Ecology provides a general education in natural and social sciences, while providing opportunities for interdisciplinary analysis of environmental issues. Understanding Ecology as a study of interactions between a human and natures and as a field that combines and integrates various disciplines, the Department offers its students two main streams, which are Environmental Science and Environmental Politics. Department established successful contacts with leading world scientific and educational centers in the field , which are the Center of Ecology at Amsterdam University (Netherlands), Idaho State University, South Alabama University (USA).

• NaUKMA Department of Ecology students have a possibility to take an UNDP-supported distance course in Public and Private Sectors Partnership for Environmental Problems Solutions, which was created by the Department in cooperation with Yale University (USA) and 15 other universities around the globe.

• The Faculty has cooperation agreements with most of the natural science research institutions of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Academy of Medical Sciences, where a number of the labs and fieldworks are being conducted.

• Industrial Impact on Ecosystems Organisms and Human Beings
• In-cellular Signal in Plant and Zoological Systems.
• Radio-ecological Aspects of Chornobyl Catastrophe
• Physics of Biological Systems
• Paleoecology and Paleobotany: Plants and Climate of Ukraine in the Holocene Period
• Structure, Properties and Function of Artificial Membranes Designed on Functional Polymers
• Membrane and Sorption Technologies for Water Cleaning