UBM-Group: Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Mathematics and Biology at SDSU

UBM 集团：圣地亚哥州立大学数学和生物学本科生跨学科培训

• 批准号: 0827278
• 负责人: Anca Segall
• 金额: $ 23.96万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0827278&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UBM; Group; Interdisciplinary; Training; Undergraduates

The San Diego State University (SDSU) Undergraduates in Mathematics and Biology (UMB) program will increase the number of undergraduates who pursue a graduate degree in interdisciplinary mathematical biology, health related fields, environment or global change, nanomaterials, and civil infrastructure (e.g., ultrasensitive sensors), and using high-performance computing, modeling, and state-of-the-art quantitative analytical tools. The project will have five major components designed to prepare undergraduates in mathematics or biological sciences (biology, microbiology) majors for interdisciplinary math-science graduate school acceptance: (1) mentoring by a team of faculty members from biology and mathematics, including monitoring and advising on academic performance and career options, (2) immersion in an interdisciplinary research project, (3) training in critical thinking skills and problem solving, (4) academic enrichment for core courses, and (5) skill set building. Each year, the UMB will identify a pool of eight qualified applicants who are talented sophomores or community college transfer students with a strong interest in interdisciplinary math and biology. Students will be recruited from the existing SDSU science pipeline - the pool of pre-biology, biology, pre-mathematics and mathematics majors, and transfer students from the surrounding community colleges, particularly those trained through our "Bridges to the Baccalaureate" program. This composite pool of students will be tutored in core mathematics and biology courses, will participate in various workshops, including effective research problem design, research ethics, and technical writing and scientific literature reading skills. All of these activities will engage the eight students who are the core of the UMB program, and who will receive a stipend for their participation. Other (unfunded) mathematics and biology undergraduate students interested in the content of specific modules will be welcome to attend, as space permits.UMB will serve as a model for development of an undergraduate interdisciplinary program to feed our existing graduate programs in Computational Science. A Discovery Team model will integrate collaborative research efforts between faculty members from Mathematics/Computer Science and the Biology Departments for both undergraduate and predoctoral interdisciplinary training in its New Interdisciplinary Workforce program. This Mathematics-Biology Partnership model can be disseminated effectively to institutions nationwide. The project represents a departure from previous efforts to involve undergraduates in research. Biology faculty will benefit from the quantitative analyses of their research projects , while faculty in math, statistics and computer sciences will have wider-ranging applications for their existing mathematical/computer toolkits, as well as the challenge of new problems for new toolkits. Motivation for mathematics majors will come from the expanded range of problem and project options they can address as they decide their career paths in applied mathematics; biology majors will master new skill sets as they pursue bioinformatics and mathematical modeling applications in fast-growing career areas of federal strategic interest in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, biofuels, environmental, and other human health-related industries. Research projects will use quantitative and computational tools to investigate mechanisms underlying processes in physiology, microbiology, genetics, ecology, bioinformatics, and cell and molecular biology. The SDSU UMB program will also address the national disparity of minorities in science and mathematics by recruiting, retaining, training and graduating its students to ensure competitiveness for graduate program acceptance in the emerging areas of mathematical biology. Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranks SDSU as No. 10 for the number of bachelor's degrees awarded to ethnic minorities (28.4% of the undergraduates at SDSU are from underrepresented groups, including African American, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islanders, or students with disabilities). The modest number of students involved will allow the SDSU UMB program to employ one-on-one mentoring and year-round monitoring of each student's success from program entry to graduation.

圣地亚哥州立大学（SDSU）在数学和生物学领域的大学生（UMB）计划将增加攻读跨学科数学生物学研究生学位的本科生的数量分析工具。 The project will have five major components designed to prepare undergraduates in mathematics or biological sciences (biology, microbiology) majors for interdisciplinary math-science graduate school acceptance: (1) mentoring by a team of faculty members from biology and mathematics, including monitoring and advising on academic performance and career options, (2) immersion in an interdisciplinary research project, (3) training in critical thinking skills and problem解决，（4）核心课程的学术丰富和（5）技能构建。 UMB每年都会确定八名合格申请人的池，他们是才华横溢的大二学生或社区大学转学学生，对跨学科数学和生物学感兴趣。将从现有的SDSU科学管道中招募学生 - 生物学，生物学，数学前和数学专业的库，并将学生从周围的社区学院（尤其是那些通过我们的“桥梁到学士学位训练）培训的学生”。这个综合学生将在核心数学和生物学课程中进行辅导，将参加各种研讨会，包括有效的研究问题设计，研究伦理，技术写作和科学文献阅读技能。所有这些活动都将吸引八名UMB计划核心的学生，并将获得参与的津贴。 由于太空许可证将作为开发本科生跨学科计划的模型，以培养我们现有的计算科学研究生课程，因此，欢迎其他对特定模块内容感兴趣的（无资金的）数学和生物学本科生。一个发现团队模型将在其新的跨学科劳动力计划中，将数学/计算机科学的教职员工之间的合作研究工作与本科和跨学科前跨学科培训的生物学部门之间的合作工作。这种数学生物学伙伴关系模型可以有效地传播给全国机构。该项目代表了以前的努力，使本科生参与研究。生物学教师将从其研究项目的定量分析中受益，而数学，统计学和计算机科学的教师将为其现有的数学/计算机工具包提供更广泛的应用程序，以及新工具包的新问题的挑战。数学专业的动机将来自他们在确定应用数学的职业道路时可以解决的一系列问题和项目选择。生物学专业将在追求生物信息学和数学建模应用程序中掌握新技能，并在快速增长的职业领域中，在生物技术，制药，生物燃料，环境和其他与人类健康相关的行业中具有联邦战略兴趣。研究项目将使用定量和计算工具来研究生理学，微生物学，遗传学，生态学，生物信息学以及细胞和分子生物学的基础机制。 SDSU UMB计划还将通过招募，保留，培训和毕业其学生来确保在数学生物学新兴领域获得研究生计划的竞争力，以解决科学和数学少数群体的民族差异。高等教育中的多样化问题将SDSU列为授予少数民族学士学位的数量第10位（SDSU的本科生中有28.4％来自代表性不足的团体，包括非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，美洲原住民，太平洋岛民或有残疾的学生）。 参与的学生数量适中将允许SDSU UMB计划对从计划进入到毕业的每个学生的成功进行一对一的指导和全年监控。