INTEGRATING MODELING AND LABORATORY SESSIONS IN NEUROSCIENCE

生命科学生物学(61)。一个由工程学院和文理学院的教师组成的跨学科团队正在合作开发和教授一门计算神经科学的新课程。智力的好处是向生物和行为科学的学生介绍更多的定量经验，同时让定量科学的学生接触到生物科学的一些有趣的问题和实验技术。通过合作，两所学院的教职员工将扩展他们的专业知识，并能够让学生参与计算神经科学中新出现的问题的调查。这门新课程代表着为计算神经科学的辅修课程下定义的第一步。为了产生更广泛的影响，一个暑期研讨会将为其他教员提供了解这门课程的机会，这样他们就可以提高自己的能力，在其他机构的生物课程中应用更多数学知识。

Life Science Biological (61). An interdisciplinary team of faculty from Colleges of Engineering and of Arts and Sciences are collaborating to develop and teach a new course in computational neuroscience. The intellectual merit is to introduce more quantitative experience to students from biological and behavioral science while exposing students from quantitative sciences to some interesting questions and experimental techniques from the biological sciences. By collaborating, the faculty from both colleges will extend their expertise and be able to involve students with investigations of emerging questions in computational neuroscience. The new course represents a first step for defining a minor in computational neuroscience. For broader impact, a summer workshop is providing opportunities for other faculty to learn about the course so they can increase their own capacity to apply more mathematics within the biology curriculum at other institutions.