UBM-Group: Collaborations on Riverine Ecology (CORE)

UBM Group的这个项目为跨学科的学生团队提供了严格的研究经验，这些学生将一个数学学生和一个生物学生配对。学生团队与数学和生物学的教师密切合作，在河流生态的一般领域规划项目，进行研究，然后将结果传播给同行和普通公众。课程和课程创新包括最初的独立学习课程，通过该课程，学生可以对密西西比河上游水系进行介绍，并进行文献回顾，以增强他们对当地水系的理论和经验理解。基于教师和同龄人的反馈以及他们对文献的沉浸，学生们产生了可检验的假设，从而导致了为期十周的暑期研究活动。所有项目成员之间的每周互动在整个夏季期间一直持续到秋季学期，在此期间，学生们每周会面，讨论最近的论文，由同组成员进行同行评议，创建视频播客进行传播，并了解数学生物学的职业机会。

This UBM Group project is providing rigorous research experiences for interdisciplinary teams of students that pair one student from mathematics and one from biology. Student teams work in close association with faculty from both mathematics and biology to plan projects in the general area of Riverine Ecology, conduct research, and then disseminate the results to peers and the general public. Course and curricular innovation includes an initial independent study course through which students receive an introduction to the upper Mississippi River system and perform a literature review to enhance their theoretical and empirical understanding of the local systems. Based on feedback from faculty and peers and their immersion in the literature students generate testable hypotheses, leading into a ten-week period of summer research activities. Weekly interactions among all program members occur throughout the summer period and continue into the fall semester, during which time students meet weekly to discuss recent papers, peer-review presentations by cohort members, create video podcasts for dissemination, and learn about career opportunities in mathematical biology.