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Math & Bio 2010:
(Project Report)
Kick-off Meeting, February 27 - March 1, 2003
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Math & Bio 2010: Linking Undergraduate Disciplines
Linking Undergraduate Disciplines
Lynn Arthur Steen, Editor
Math & Bio 2010: Linking Undergraduate Disciplines envisages a new educational paradigm in which the disciplines of mathematics and biology, currently quite separate, will be productively linked in the undergraduate science programs of the twenty-first century. As a science, biology depends increasingly on data, algorithms and models; in virtually every respect, it is becoming more quantitative, more computational and more mathematical. While these trends are related, they are not the same; they represent, rather, three different perspectives on what many are calling the “new biology.”
All three methods––quantitative, computational, mathematical––are spreading across the entire landscape of biological science from molecular to cellular, organisimic and ecological. The aim of this volume is to alert members of both communities––biological and mathematical–– to the expanding and exciting challenges of interdisciplinary work in these fields.
Math & Bio 2010 grew out of Meeting the Challenges: Education Across the Biological, Mathematical, and Computer Sciences, a joint project of the MAA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The American Society for Microbiology funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Representatives from the biological and mathematical sciences interested in strengthening interdisciplinary efforts in undergraduate education met to discuss opportunities and challenges presented by recent changes in biology. Discussion leaders at this meeting wrote several of the articles in this volume.
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