Curricular and Pedagogical Innovations in Quantitative Biology

定量生物学的课程和教学创新

• 批准号: 8104219
• 负责人: WEIGANG QIU
• 金额: $ 25.93万
• 依托单位: HUNTER COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8104219
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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.

描述（由申请人提供）：当前的本科生物学科学课程不能为有兴趣从事生物医学研究职业的学生提供足够的计算 /定量培训。纽约市城市大学猎人学院（CUNY）将通过扩大和实施生物学和相关科学的课程转型来解决这种缺乏培训，该研究在其第一阶段项目开始，名为《定量生物学》（QUBI）倡议。 Qubi的跨学科教师小组的第一个目标将将计算和定量生物学内容整合到26个不同的课程中，每年在生物学，化学，计算机科学，数学和统计部门中为大约6,500个注册人提供服务。这些经过修改的课程中的几个将向生物信息学介绍我们的本科生，Qubi预计，每年多达20名学生将追求新的生物信息学选项和集中度。协作课程发展和协作教学。我们的教师将参加教育会议，并参加由教学专家举办的夏季讲习班。在此计划中获得的所有知识将与亨特的教师共享。 Qubi的第三个目标是建立批判性的定量生物学学生，对于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科学相关教育计划（MARC，MBRS/RISE，HHMI，NSF CSEMS和COLLEGEN）合作，以在高中和大学级别进行学生宣传。亨特学院提议的课程转型的成功将对增加亨特和整个CUNY的定量培训的生物学家，尤其是少数民族科学家的数量产生重大影响，因为猎人课程活动将与其他CUNY校园共享。 与公共卫生的相关性：当今可用的生物学信息（例如人类基因组序列和健康统计数据）呈指数增长。因此，计算和定量科学在预防和治疗中起着越来越重要的作用。拟议的项目将通过21世纪的生物医学研究所需的定量技能生产一代科学家。