Collaborative Research: UBM - Institutional: UI-WSU Program in Undergraduate Mathematics and Biology

爱达荷大学（UI）和华盛顿州立大学（WSU）合作的本科生生物数学项目扩大了数学和生物学本科生的跨学科培训机会。合作院校的本科生物学和数学教育让学生沉浸在跨学科的文化中。通过这个项目，鼓励本科生在数学和生物学的交叉领域攻读研究生和科学事业。学生在本科团队中接受尖端跨学科研究的培训和指导，这些研究建立在伊利诺伊大学和华盛顿州立大学教师之间的合作基础上。数学生物学的相互交织、合作的本科课程利用了两所大学的专业知识，并利用了两所大学数学和生物学教师之间的广泛合作，为本科生提供了教育和培训经验，包括获得研究项目、实验室设施和计算资源，这远远超出了任何一所大学单独提供的可能性。主要研究人员和参与的教师包括生物学家、生物化学家、生态学家、进化生物学家、数学家、统计学家和计算机科学家，他们参与的项目展示了巨大的科学多样性、跨学科合作和为UBM学生提供的团队研究机会。研究课题范围从分子尺度到生物尺度，涵盖种群和进化动力学，并结合实证和理论研究。爱达荷大学（University of Idaho，简称UI）和华盛顿州立大学（Washington State University，简称WSU）这两所相距仅7英里的大学，将在数学生物学方面创建一个整合和合作的本科培训项目。该项目将建立在两所机构数学家和生物学家之间广泛合作的基础上。学生将沉浸在数学生物学的跨学科文化中，并在两个学科的教师的指导下获得真正的研究机会，这些教师将培养能够在数学和生物学的界面上解决关键科学问题的下一代科学家。学生的机会包括：参与多种合作教学的核心跨学科课程，新的学位选择，以及承认数学和生物学跨学科培训的证书。所有感兴趣的学生都可以使用这些组件，而不仅仅是那些受UBM项目支持的学生。项目团队努力招募代表性不足的群体，如美国原住民、西班牙裔以及来自爱达荷州农村和华盛顿州东部的第一代大学生。这两个学院都有几个组织和项目（多元文化事务、印第安人中心、学生残疾服务、妇女中心等），教师从这些组织和项目中招收学生。

The University of Idaho (UI) and Washington State University (WSU) collaborative undergraduate Bio-Math project expands interdisciplinary training opportunities for undergraduates in mathematics and biology. Undergraduate biology and mathematics education at the partner institutions provides immersion for students in an interdisciplinary culture. Through this program undergraduate students are encouraged to pursue graduate studies and science careers at the intersection of mathematics and biology. Students are trained and mentored in undergraduate teams on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research that builds on collaborations between faculty at UI and WSU. The interwoven, cooperative undergraduate curriculum in mathematical biology leverages expertise at both institutions and capitalizes on extensive collaborations between mathematics and biology faculty at both institutions, providing undergraduates an educational and training experience which includes access to research projects, laboratory facilities, and computing resources well beyond what would be possible at either institution alone. Principal investigators and participating faculty include biologists, biochemists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists who are involved in projects that demonstrate great scientific diversity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and team-based research opportunities for UBM students. Research topics range from molecular to organismal scales, cover population and evolutionary dynamics, and combine empirical and theoretical research.The University of Idaho (UI) and Washington State University (WSU), two institutions which are just seven miles apart, will create an integrated and collaborative undergraduate training program in mathematical biology. The program will build upon the extensive collaborations between mathematicians and biologists at both institutions. Students will be immersed in an interdisciplinary culture in mathematical biology, and be provided with genuine research opportunities supervised by faculty from both disciplines who will train the next generation of scientists capable of addressing critical scientific questions at the interface of math and biology. Opportunities for the students include: participation in a diverse set of a cooperatively-taught core interdisciplinary courses, new degree options, and certificates that recognize transdisciplinary training in mathematics and biology. These components are available to all interested students, not just those supported by the UBM project. The project team strives to recruit underrepresented groups, such as Native Americans, Hispanics, and first-generation college students from rural Idaho and Eastern Washington. Both institutions have several organizations and programs (Multicultural Affairs, Native American Center, Student Disabilities Services, Women's Centers, etc) from which the faculty recruit the students.