Talent Expansion in Quantitative Biology

定量生物学人才拓展

• 批准号: 0525447
• 负责人: Anant Godbole
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: East Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0525447&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Talent; Expansion; Quantitative; Biology

The Departments of Mathematics and Biological Sciences at East Tennessee State University are working in partnership to immerse three cohorts of entering freshmen (20 students each year) in a new four-year research-intensive curriculum in quantitative biology. Students are recruited as majors into either department from those who declare themselves as "undecided" and, in each case, enter a Quantitative Biology track. Features of the program include: an interdisciplinary bridge program (to be taken between the students' senior year in high school and freshman year in college) that includes an introduction to early research opportunities; participation in appropriate research projects during the freshman, sophomore and junior years and placement in external Research Experiences for Undergraduates or internships at the end of their third year; and mentoring throughout the undergraduate years with involvement of advanced undergraduates in the mentoring process. The project is creating a cadre of students who are adept at functioning at the confluence of the mathematical, biological and computing sciences. The INTELLECTUAL MERIT of the project is that it seeks to graduate sixty majors in a high-demand non-traditional concentration, namely quantitative and computational bio/medical science. It gains its strength from a new curriculum that aggressively discards many traditionally required courses, while placing research squarely into the center stage of all activities.The BROADER IMPACTS of this activity are that it creates a pipeline to the many careers and graduate programs in Computational Science, Informatics, Mathematical Biology, Neuroscience, etc. across the nation; and that it involves and helps promote a clear career path for an underserved population of students.

东田纳西州立大学的数学和生物科学系正在合作，让三批新生(每年20名学生)沉浸在一个新的为期四年的定量生物学研究密集型课程中。两个系的学生都是从那些自称“尚未决定”的学生中招来的，每一个专业的学生都会进入定量生物学的学习轨道。该计划的特点包括：一个跨学科的桥梁计划(在学生的高中四年级和大学一年级之间进行)，其中包括对早期研究机会的介绍；在一年级、二年级和三年级期间参与适当的研究项目，并在本科生三年级结束时为他们安排外部研究经验；以及在整个本科阶段进行指导，并让高级本科生参与指导过程。该项目正在培养一支善于在数学、生物和计算机科学的交汇处发挥作用的学生干部队伍。该项目的学术价值在于，它寻求从60个高要求的非传统专业毕业，即定量和计算生物/医学科学。它的优势来自于一个新的课程，它积极地放弃了许多传统的必修课，同时将研究直接置于所有活动的中心阶段。这项活动的更广泛的影响是，它为全国各地计算科学、信息学、数学生物学、神经科学等领域的许多职业和研究生课程创造了一条管道；它涉及并帮助促进了服务不足的学生群体的明确职业道路。