UBM: Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological and Mathematical Sciences at ASU

UBM：亚利桑那州立大学生物和数学科学本科生跨学科培训

• 批准号: 0436341
• 负责人: Yang Kuang
• 金额: $ 80万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0436341&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UBM; Interdisciplinary; Training; Undergraduates; Biological

An interdisciplinary team of investigators carry out anundergraduate training initiative at Arizona State University. The training plan intimately combines new cross-disciplinarycourses and summer research programs. The former are constructedto allow maximal participation among undergraduate cadres, andfacilitate life science majors to achieve a minor in mathematics,and, likewise, mathematics majors to enrich their education witha minor in bioscience. The summer research program is acompetitive enterprise involving at least eight ASU facultymembers from life sciences, mathematics, and biophysics. Research projects span modeling of ecological and evolutionaryprocesses through the new lens of stoichiometric constraints,bio-economics, chemostat theory, and modeling of visualperception. This project has potential to make broad impact in bothlocal and global education environs. Regarding the former, theASU UBM team is truly interdisciplinary, with members inmathematics, biology and biophysics, exceptionally well suitedfor interdisciplinary training for undergraduates in biologicaland mathematical sciences. Its collaborative efforts can provideundergraduate and graduate students of diverse ethnic/racialbackgrounds with first-hand educational experience incross-disciplinary communication and exploration. As for globalimpact, the proposed holistic approach (involving mathematicalbiology courses at various levels and summer research projects)in mathematical biology training can vertically integrate all thecomponents in the ASU education system. It is therefore expectedthat this proposed program may yield many invaluable lessons toserve mathematical bioscience education and research nationwide,enriching the experience for the next generation of students inthis integrative and interdisciplinary scientific endeavor.

一个跨学科的调查小组在亚利桑那州立大学开展了一项本科生培训计划。培训计划紧密结合了新的跨学科课程和夏季研究计划。 前者的建设是为了让本科干部最大限度地参与，并促进生命科学专业的学生实现数学辅修，同样，数学专业的学生丰富他们的教育与生物科学的辅修。 夏季研究计划是竞争性的企业，涉及至少八个ASU来自生命科学，数学和生物物理学的教职员工。研究项目涵盖了通过化学计量约束、生物经济学、恒化器理论和视觉感知建模的新透镜对生态和进化过程进行建模。 该项目有可能在当地和全球教育环境中产生广泛的影响。 关于前者，ASU UBM团队是真正的跨学科，成员包括数学，生物学和生物物理学，非常适合生物学和数学科学本科生的跨学科培训。 它的合作努力可以为不同民族/种族背景的本科生和研究生提供跨学科交流和探索的第一手教育经验。 至于全球影响，建议在数学生物学培训的整体方法（包括在各个级别和夏季研究项目的生物学课程）可以垂直整合ASU教育系统中的所有组件。 因此，预计这一拟议中的计划可能会产生许多宝贵的经验教训，以服务于全国的数学生物科学教育和研究，丰富经验，为下一代的学生在这一综合性和跨学科的科学奋进。