UBM-Group: Integrated Undergraduate Training in Mathematics and Life Sciences at NCSU

北卡罗来纳州立大学(NCSU)数学和生命科学综合本科生培训的目标是吸引和培训数学和生命科学的本科生，以便在数学和生命科学之间的学术和非学术职业生涯。伽利略认为，自然规律是数学的。今天，大约40年后的今天，生命科学前沿的前沿研究已经变得更加依赖于数学、计算和统计方法。拟议的UBM项目使用多方面的方法来培养下一代数学家和科学家，他们将满足21世纪全面、多学科的研究问题。该计划致力于前沿的、重要的、跨学科的研究；成功的、成熟的课程和支持计划；以及令人兴奋的、新颖的新倡议。它的目的是为数学和生命科学领域的学生提供一个全面的、具有挑战性的、具有支持性的学术环境，以确保他们的成功。NCSU UBM团队真正是跨学科的，成员包括数学、生物数学、统计学、生物学、化学、兽医和医学。这一专业领域的强大组合为生命科学和数学专业的本科生提供了真正独特的跨学科教育体验。拟议的UBM计划的结果将为入门数学和科学教育提供一个系统的制度变革的工具。由于项目领导层包括校园现有学术单位的关键成员，该项目将从现有结构内部实施这些改革。该计划将为许多NCSU学生提供重要的职业发展课程，并将从目前在数学和生命科学领域代表性不足的许多群体招收不同的学生。

The goal of the Integrated Undergraduate Training in Mathematics and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is to attract and train undergraduates in mathematics and life sciences for academic and nonacademic careers at the interface between mathematics and the life sciences. Galileo argued that the laws of nature are mathematical. Today, some 40 decades later, cutting edge research at the forefront of life sciences has become more dependent on mathematical, computational, and statistical methodologies. The proposed UBM program uses a multi-faceted approach to prepare next generation of mathematicians and scientists that will meet the holistic, multi-disciplinary research problems of the 21st century. The program engages in cutting edge, significant, cross-disciplinary research; successful, well established curricular and support programs; as well as exciting, novel, new initiatives. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive, challenging, yet supportive academic environment for students in mathematical and life sciences designed to ensure their success. The NCSU UBM team is truly interdisciplinary, with members in mathematics, biomathematics, statistics, biology, chemistry, veterinary medicine and medicine. This powerful combination of areas of expertise offers a truly unique cross-disciplinary educational experience for undergraduates in life sciences and mathematics. The results of the proposed UBM program will provide a vehicle for systemic institutional change in introductory mathematics and science education. Since project leadership includes key members of existing academic units on campus, the project is set to implement these reforms from inside of existing structures. The program will provide important professional development courses for many NCSU students and will recruit diverse students from many groups that are currently under-represented in mathematics and the life sciences.