Graduate Program in Biophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago

简介(由申请者提供)：2007年，芝加哥大学启动了生物物理科学研究生课程(BPHYS)，旨在提供物理和生物科学之间的跨学科培训，并促进该大学的跨学科研究文化。 目标1.建立一个国家认可的研究生课程，培养跨学科探索的领导者和先驱。 目标2.促进物理和生物科学之间的合作研究，以此作为发现和创新的途径。 目标3：通过将科学界的科学领袖聚集在一起的跨学科研究生培训计划，加强芝加哥大学的文化。 目标4.制定并验证一种个人、以学生为中心、 贯穿始终的跨学科和协作性。为了追求这些广泛的目标，几个创新战略与许多标准要素一起纳入了一个连贯的培训计划。最终，推动项目卓越的引擎将是一批才华横溢的实习生和忠诚的导师，他们共同努力追求最高质量的科学。创新：复杂的课程。第一年的课程是围绕一个密集的、为期一年的实践实验室课程建立的，该课程教会学生如何进行协作科学，并使用现代生物物理方法生产、测量和分析生物分子。全职课程总监负责 这一实践课程并将其与教学课程工作相结合，包括来自不同部门的现有课程以及该计划提供的新的跨学科课程。双重指导。从第二年开始，每个学生都是来自不同科学领域的两个活跃研究小组的正式参与者。对一些人来说，这种安排可能只是提供了一个机会，让他们跨过各个领域，成为深度跨学科的科学家。其他人将开创新的研究领域。 相关性：芝加哥大学从事物理、化学和生物学的研究，但分别在不同的系进行研究。这笔助学金支持一个新的跨部门研究生项目，主要目标是培训学生将化学和物理方法应用于生物和健康相关问题的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 2007, The University of Chicago launched the graduate program in Biophysical Sciences (BPHYS) designed to provide interdisciplinary training at the interface between the physical and biological sciences and promote the University's interdisciplinary research culture. Aim 1. Establish a nationally-recognized graduate program that will train leaders and pioneers in interdisciplinary exploration. Aim 2. Promote collaborative research at the interface between the physical and biological sciences as a route to discovery and innovation. Aim 3. Enhance the culture of The University of Chicago via an interdisciplinary graduate training program that brings together scientific leaders in the scientific community. Aim 4. Develop and validate an approach to predoctoral training that is individual, student focused, and interdisciplinary and collaborative throughout. In pursuit of these broad aims, several innovative strategies have been incorporated along with many standard elements of a cohesive training program. Ultimately, the engine that will drive program excellence will be a cadre of talented trainees and committed mentors working together to pursue the highest quality science. Innovations: Sophisticated Curriculum. The first year curriculum is built around an intense, year-long practical lab course that teaches the students how to conduct collaborative science and produce, measure & analyze biomolecules using modern biophysical methods. A full-time Curriculum Director is responsible for this practical course and for integrating it with didactic course work, which includes established courses from diverse departments as well as new interdisciplinary courses offered by the Program. Dual Mentorship. Beginning in the second year, each student is a full participant in two active research groups from different scientific fields. For some, this arrangement may simply yield an opportunity to cross fields and become deeply interdisciplinary scientists. Others will initiate new fields of research. RELEVANCE: The University of Chicago conducts research in physics, chemistry and biology but in separate departments. This grant supports a new interdepartmental graduate program The primary goal is to train students to apply methods from chemistry and physics to the study of biological and health-related problems