GRC-Physics Research & Education: The complex intersection of Biology and Physics

该奖项支持参赛者参加一个关于物理学和生物学在研究和教育方面的复杂交集的“戈登会议”。近年来，生物物理领域和生物等生物科学专业的物理教育都有了长足的发展。生物物理学的新发现、新应用和新技术正在产生深远的影响，影响和影响着科学界、未来科学家和生物技术工作者的教育以及普通民众。戈登会议有着悠久而丰富的历史，多年来一直是许多重要科学研究人员的关键聚会场所。这次会议汇集了生物学家、生物物理学家、物理学家、物理教师、物理教育研究人员、教科书作者、生物教育研究人员和生物学教师，以及这些领域的研究生和本科生研究人员，讨论这些学科之间的联系以及学生如何学习这些学科。随着教科书的编写以及新课程和实验室的开发和实施，这一焦点话题来得正是时候，更不用说《生物2010》的出版及其对包括物理科学在内的强有力的跨学科课程的呼吁。由于选修物理入门课程的生物学生人数众多，而且这些课程大多不支持这些学生的需求，因此这次会议有很大的潜力产生深远的影响。

This award supports participants to attend a "Gordon Conference" on the complex intersection of Physics and Biology with respect to both research and education. The fields of biological physics and the physics education of biology and other biological-science students have experienced tremendous growth in recent years. New findings, applications, and technologies in biological physics are having far reaching consequences that affect and influence the science community, the education of future scientists and biotechnology workers, and the general population.The Gordon Conferences have a long and rich history of serving as the key meeting places for many important researchers in science over the years. This conference brings together biologists, biophysicists, physicists, physics teachers, physics education researchers, textbook authors, biology education researchers and biology teachers, as well as graduate and undergraduate student researchers in these fields, to discuss connections between, and how students learn, these disciplines. The focus topic is timely as textbooks are being written and new courses and laboratories are being developed and implemented, not to mention the publication of Bio2010 and its calls for a strong interdisciplinary curriculum that includes physical science. Because of the large number of biology students taking introductory physics, and the fact that most of these courses do not support the needs of these students, there is a great potential for this conference to have deep impact.