The MAA Committee on Curriculum Reform and the First Two Years (CRAFTY), through the Curriculum Foundations Project, produced reports on the types of mathematics skills needed by students in other disciplines. Here are two reports from that series.

• Biology (PDF) (from a CF workshop held at Macalester College in November of 2000. Appears by permission of the author).
• Technical Mathematics: Biotechnology and Environmental Technology (PDF) (from a CF workshop held at Los Angeles Pierce College, October 5–8, 2000 J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, October 12–15, 2000.) Appears by permission of the author.

Mathematics Is Biology’s Next Microscope, Only Better; Biology Is Mathematics’ Next Physics, Only Better (PDF)

An article by Joel E. Cohen (Rockefeller University and Columbia University) that originally appeared in PLoS Biology, based on an earlier presentation (PDF). Appears by permission of the author.

Meeting the Challenges: Education Across the Mathematical, Biological, and Computer Sciences

Victor Katz, MAA Visiting Mathematician from University of District of Columbia

Modeling of Biological and Physiological Systems Using a Block Diagram Programming Language

Tom Cathcart, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University

Computational Ecology (PDF)

Nadine Lymn of the Ecological Society of America. Appears by permission of the author.

Quantitative Biology for the 21st Century (PDF)

A report prepared by Alan Hastings, Peter Arzberger, Ben Bolker, Tony Ives, Norman Johnson, Margaret Palmer based on two NSF funded workshops on Quantitative Environmental and Integrative Biology, the first held September 7-9, 2000 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the University of California, San Diego campus, and the second held December 11-13, 2002 at the University of California, San Diego. Appears by permission of the author.

Ten Equations that Changed Biology: Mathematics in Problem-Solving Biology Curricula (PDF)

John Jungck, Department of Biology, Beloit College. Appears by permission of the author.

Meeting Report: Incorporating Genomics Research into Undergraduate Curricula

Dyer, B. and LeBlanc, M., Cell Biology Education, v1(4), Winter Issue 2002, 101-104.

Education for a Biocomplex Future (PDF)

an article by Lou Gross that first appeared in Science. Appears by permission of the author.

New Realities for the Biological and Mathematical Sciences (PDF)

from a presentation by Carlos Castillo-Chavez at the Joint Math Meetings in January 2003. Appears by permission of the author.

Short Courses in the Mathematics of Biological Complexity

A series of four-day courses offered during 2003 at the Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville,
and supported by NIH.

Training Ecologists to Think with Uncertainty in Mind (PDF)

Brewer, Carol A. and Gross, Louis J., Ecology, 84(6), 2003, pp.1412-1414. Appears by permission of the author.