UBM-Institutional-Collaborative Research: Four College Biomath Consortium

UBM-机构合作研究：四所大学生物数学联盟

• 批准号: 1129194
• 负责人: Ileana Streinu
• 金额: $ 44.6万
• 依托单位: Smith College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1129194&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UBM; Institutional; Collaborative; Research; Four; UBM; Institutional; Collaborative; Research; Four

This proposal establishes the Four College Biomathematics Consortium: a collaboration among four undergraduate institutions (Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, and Hampshire College) with a long tradition of excellence and a commitment to research-centered education. Two of these institutions are women?s colleges. All four have a demonstrated commitment to expanding opportunities for women, underrepresented groups and first-generation students in scientific fields. The Consortium will help train the next generation of biomathematicians. A two-year research-intensive program will be developed, building on a strong existing infrastructure for cross-campus collaborations, in which student teams move through a series of curricular offerings and mentored research opportunities. The emphasis throughout is on: a) a succession of developmentally appropriate courses and research opportunities; b) a team-centered approach that unites student teams and mentoring teams in several multi-year research collaborations; and c) the creation of a multi-layered cohort of biomathematics students at various stages of training. Led by mentoring teams composed of both life scientists and mathematicians, the students will explore problems at all scales of biological organization, ranging from the intricacies of protein folding to the complexities of water and material flows in forest ecosystems. These projects share a unifying theme,the consideration of potential and realized shape spaces, and emphasize geometric approaches to the exploration of biological problems. The program advances the national STEM agenda by training 50 undergraduates in biomathematics and by generating online pedagogical materials (curricula, exercises and training modules) that can be exploited by the broader community. The program will also serve as a potential exportable model for multi-institutional collaboration in the training of undergraduates in biomathematics and other emerging scientific fields.

该建议建立了四个大学生物学联盟：四个本科机构（史密斯学院，霍利奥克山学院，阿默斯特学院和汉普郡学院）之间的合作，具有悠久的卓越传统和对以研究为中心的教育的承诺。这些机构中的两个是女性的大学。这四个人都表现出对扩大妇女，代表性不足的群体和科学领域的第一代学生的机会的承诺。该财团将帮助培训下一代生物学家。将开发一项为期两年的研究密集型计划，建立在跨校园合作的强大基础架构的基础上，在该基础设施中，学生团队通过一系列课程提供和指导的研究机会。 整个过程中的重点是：a）一系列在发展中适当的课程和研究机会； b）以团队为中心的方法，该方法将学生团队和指导团队团结在多年的研究合作中； c）在各个培训阶段创建了多层生物制作学生的队列。 在指导团队的带领下，由生活科学家和数学家组成，学生将探索生物组织的各个规模的问题，从蛋白质折叠的复杂性到森林生态系统中的水和物质流的复杂性。 这些项目共享一个统一的主题，对潜在和实现形状空间的考虑，并强调了探索生物学问题的几何方法。 该计划通过培训50名生物护理学的本科生，并生成在线教学材料（课程，练习和培训模块），通过培训50名本科生来推进国家STEM议程。该计划还将作为在生物学和其他新兴科学领域培训本科生的多机构合作的潜在可导出模型。