Curricular and Pedagogical Innovations in Quantitative Biology

描述(由申请人提供)：目前的本科生物科学课程没有为有兴趣从事生物医学研究的学生提供足够的计算/量化培训。纽约城市大学亨特学院(CUNY)将通过扩大和实施生物学及相关科学的课程改革来解决这一缺乏培训的问题，该课程改革始于其名为数量生物学(QUBI)倡议的第一阶段项目。Qubi的跨学科教员小组的第一个目标是将计算和定量生物学内容整合到26门不同的课程中，每年为生物、化学、计算机科学、数学和统计系约6,500名注册学生提供服务。其中几门修改后的课程将向我们的本科生介绍生物信息学领域，Qubi预计每年将有多达20名学生学习第一阶段开发的新的生物信息学选项和专业。Qubi的第二个目标是通过培训我们的科学教师采用新的教学方法，如基于问题的学习(PBL)、协作课程开发和协作教学，为Hunter培养定量生物学家建立持久的教育基础设施。我们的教员将参加教育会议，并参加由教育学专家举办的暑期研讨会。在这项计划中获得的所有知识都将与Hunter的教职员工共享。曲壁的第三个目标是培养足够数量的数量生物学学生，这对第二阶段项目的成功至关重要。QUBI团队将与学院现有的成功的科学相关教育项目(MARC、MBRS/RISE、HHMI、NSF CSEMS和CollegeNow)合作，在高中和大学层面推广学生。亨特学院拟议的课程改革的成功将对增加亨特大学和整个城市大学受过定量培训的生物学家的数量产生重大影响，特别是少数民族科学家，因为亨特学院的课程活动将与城市大学的其他校园共享。 与公共卫生的相关性：今天可获得的生物信息量，如人类基因组序列和健康统计数据，正在呈指数级增长。因此，计算科学和定量科学在疾病预防和治疗中发挥着越来越重要的作用。拟议的项目将培养出具有21世纪生物医学研究所需的量化技能的下一代科学家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Current undergraduate biological sciences curricula do not provide adequate computational / quantitative training for students who are interested in pursuing careers in biomedical research. Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) will address this lack of training by broadening and implementing a curricular transformation in biology and related sciences begun during its Phase I project, named the Quantitative Biology (QuBi) initiative. QuBi's interdisciplinary faculty panel's first aim will integrate computational and quantitative biology content into 26 different courses serving approximately 6,500 registrants per year across the Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics departments. Several of these modified courses will introduce our undergraduates to the field of bioinformatics, and QuBi anticipates that up to 20 students per year will pursue the new bioinformatics options and concentrations developed during Phase I. QuBi's second aim is to establish an enduring educational infrastructure for producing quantitative biologists at Hunter by training our science faculty in new pedagogical approaches such as problem-based learning (PBL), collaborative course development and collaborative teaching. Our faculty will attend educational conferences and participate in summer workshops run by pedagogical experts. All knowledge acquired during this initiative will be shared with faculty across Hunter. QuBi's third aim, to build a critical mass of quantitative biology students, is vital for the success of the Phase II project. The QuBi team will collaborate with the College's existing successful science-related educational programs (MARC, MBRS/RISE, HHMI, NSF CSEMS and CollegeNow) for student outreach at both the high school and the college level. The success of the proposed curricular transformation at Hunter College will have a major impact on increasing the number of quantitatively trained biologists, especially minority scientists, at Hunter and across CUNY, since the Hunter curricular activities will be shared with other CUNY campuses. Relevance to Public Health: The amount of biological information available today, such as human genome sequences and health statistics, is increasing exponentially. The computational and quantitative sciences are therefore playing an increasingly important role in disease prevention and treatment. The proposed project will produce a future generation of scientists with the quantitative skills required for biomedical research in the 21st century.