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Mathematical Biology Education

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01 March 2020
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Ongoing
This special issue of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology celebrates the achievements of numerous mathematical biologists who have been leaders in many of the programmatic efforts over the past sixty years to reform both mathematics and biology education. This issue brings together a review of initiatives that have been particularly effective as well as addressing challenges that we need to face. It particularly focuses on progress that has been made since the US National Academies of Science published "Bio 2010" in 2003 and laid down an agenda for reforming biology by including much more rigorous mathematical expectations in the professional preparation of life scientists. In the past two decades, professional societies, curriculum consortia, federally funded initiatives, journals, and research communities have devoted serious attention to addressing this challenge. Their publications, software, professional development programs, and outreach efforts are described herein.

Editors

  • Professor John R. Jungck Professor John R. Jungck , 

    Professor John R. Jungck

    To improve the quality of undergraduate life science education, John founded the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium (http://bioquest.org), sharing curricular materials designed to help students learn long term strategies of research based on an educational philosophy of the 3P’s: Problem Posing, Problem Solving, Professional Peer Review (Persuasion). Besides over 35 years with the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, he has been editor of four journals on biology education. He is Professor of Biology and Mathematics at the University of Delaware, researching molecular phylogenetics; image analysis; 3D nanotomography; self-assembly (4D printing).

  • Professor Louis J. Gross Professor Louis J. Gross  &

    Professor Louis J. Gross

    Louis J. Gross is a Chancellor’s Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He directs the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), a NSF-funded center to foster research and education at the interface between math and biology. He also directs The Institute for Environmental Modeling which provides an accessible collection of calculators to assist in human and ecological risk assessment for toxicants and radionuclides. He is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology and co-author of the textbook Mathematics for the Life Sciences.

  • Professor Raina Robeva Professor Raina Robeva

    Professor Raina Robeva

    Raina Robeva is a Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. She is the lead author/editor of several textbooks and volumes in mathematical biology, including An Invitation to Biomathematics, Algebraic and Discrete Mathematical Methods for Modern Biology, and Algebraic and Combinatorial Computational Biology. She has led numerous educational and professional development initiatives at the interface of mathematics and biology sponsored by NSF, NIH, and MAA among others. Robeva is the founding Chief Editor of Frontiers in Systems Biology, a specialty journal in the Frontiers portfolio of open-access publications.

Articles (17 in this collection)

  8. Getting a Grip on Variability

    Authors

    • Richard Lehrer
    • Leona Schauble
    • Panchompoo Wisittanawat
    • Content type: Special Issue: Mathematical Biology Education
    • Published: 06 August 2020
    • Article: 106