REU Site: Mathematical Biology Team Science (MBioTS) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at Clarkson University

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。克拉克森大学的数学生物团队科学（MBioTS）本科生研究体验（REU）项目是一个为期十周的本科生跨学科研究暑期体验。该计划的目标是通过沉浸式团队科学方法培养对定量生物学感兴趣的学生。该计划旨在培养未来的生物学家和应用数学家，以有效地沟通和跨学科合作，解决生物科学中出现的问题。MBioTS REU网站的目标人群包括来自不同学术背景的学生，如数学、生物学、健康科学、物理学、计算机科学和工程学。学生将在全国范围内招募，重点是女性，STEM中代表性不足的群体，以及研究机会有限的机构的学生。教师导师在数学生物学方面具有专业知识，研究项目涵盖生态学，细胞生物学和公共卫生等生物现象。参与者将发展适用于协作科学、科学传播、出版和展示研究成果以及STEM研究生学习和职业的技能。MBioTS REU计划将通过直接结合实验和理论组成部分的项目，向学生介绍生物学和数学交叉的跨学科研究。学生将在导师指导下进行研究，其中一名参与者专注于在实验室环境中收集数据，另一名参与者专注于计算和数学分析。每支队伍将由克拉克森生物系和数学系的教师指导。MBioTS REU的一个关键组成部分将是跨学科学生团队成员之间的密切互动，因为他们合作设计实验和模型来解决生物学问题。该计划还将包括克拉克森大学和其他机构的教师关于数学生物学项目的研究研讨会。学生发展的技能是通用的和广泛适用的，包括实验设计，建模，计算，数据拟合和不确定性量化，以及数学分析。技术沟通技巧也将通过研究报告和专业发展研讨会来强调，目的是为研究生院和科学事业做好准备。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The Mathematical Biology Team Science (MBioTS) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at Clarkson University is a ten-week interdisciplinary research summer experience for undergraduate students. The objective of the program is to train students interested in quantitative biology through an immersive team science approach. The program is designed to prepare future biologists and applied mathematicians to effectively communicate and collaborate across disciplines to solve problems arising in the biological sciences. The targeted population for the MBioTS REU site includes students from a diverse set of academic backgrounds such as mathematics, biology, health sciences, physics, computer science, and engineering. Students will be recruited nationally, with a focus on women, underrepresented groups in STEM, and students at institutions with limited research opportunities. The faculty mentors have expertise working collaboratively in mathematical biology, and the research projects span biological phenomena ranging from ecology, cell biology, and public health. Participants will develop skills applicable in collaborative science, in science communication, in publishing and presenting research results, and in graduate studies and careers in STEM. The MBioTS REU program will introduce students to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of biology and mathematics through projects that directly combine experimental and theoretical components. Students will work in pairs on mentored research, with one participant focused on data collection in a laboratory setting and the other focused on computational and mathematical analysis. Each team will be mentored by faculty from both the Biology and Mathematics Departments at Clarkson. A key component of the MBioTS REU will be the close interaction between student team members across disciplines, as they collaboratively design both experiments and models to address biological questions. The program will also include research seminars on mathematical biology projects from faculty both at Clarkson University and other institutions. The skills students develop are versatile and broadly applicable, and include experimental design, modeling, computation, data fitting and uncertainty quantification, and mathematical analysis. Technical communication skills will also be emphasized via research presentations, and professional development seminars intended to prepare students for graduate school and scientific careers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.