Interdisciplinarity, with a mathematics core, has sought new strides since the mid-seventies of the last century. Biomathematics/Mathematical Biology saw its valuable bedrock with its site as part of instruction and research. 1985 saw the report of Environmental Dimension in General University Education as a part of the International Environmental Education Programme. A new perspective was thus allowed to groom in the Department of Mathematics of Jadavpur University, despite its aversion elsewhere, at the state level. Mathematical Ecology began to have its foothold and intimately, as a close ally to efforts on mathematization of different facets of human endeavor. Qualitative aspects, abstraction, application, etc., have enabled the Department of Mathematics to have edges over others elsewhere. The collaboration at the institutional level has thus come to stay. Ecological study and research kept on having strides because of irretrievably pervasive characteristics. Several layers of support kept on occurring from UNESCO, UGC, CSIR, DST, NBHM, etc., so that evolutionary traits, with all their aspirations and challenges, have become continually discernible. That happened to be a grooming elan of enriched study and research to have the shareability and interaction with cohorts, be they in India and abroad. Collaborative linkages well the more buttress this with institutions both in India and abroad. Several publications in international journals of repute as upshots of conferences and seminars at the national and international levels do point in impeccable ways. The dynamics of innovative ideas in the entire gamut of theoretical studies have flourished with leadership.

Considering the achievement of the Department of Mathematics in this branch of study, UGC sanctioned a special grant of Rs 7.75 lakhs and a post of Reader under the Emerging Areas – Environmental Science program vide Memo No. F. 13-47/94 dated 07.021994 for infrastructure development towards offering a paper on Mathematical Modelling of Ecological and Environmental Systems at the M.Sc. level. The duration of the scheme was five years, from 1994 to 1999. To strengthen and sustain the activities in this field, the University established the Centre for Mathematical Biology and Ecology vide the Executive Council resolution No. 11 dated 27.08.1997. CMBE acknowledges its deep indebtedness to Prof. D. K. Sinha, Late Prof. A. B. Roy, and Prof. K. S. Chaudhuri for their foresight and effort in establishing this center.