title: Toward integration: from quantitative biology to mathbio-biomath?
abstract: In response to the call of BIO2010 for integrating quantitative skills into undergraduate biology education, 30 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Program Directors at the 2006 HHMI Program Directors Meeting established a consortium to investigate, implement, develop, and disseminate best practices resulting from the integration of math and biology. With the assistance of an HHMI-funded mini-grant, led by Karl Joplin of East Tennessee State University, and support in institutional HHMI grants at Emory and University of Delaware, these institutions held a series of summer institutes and workshops to document progress toward and address the challenges of implementing a more quantitative approach to undergraduate biology education. This report summarizes the results of the four summer institutes (2007-2010). The group developed four draft white papers, a wiki site, and a listserv. One major outcome of these meetings is this issue of CBE-Life Sciences Education, which resulted from proposals at our 2008 meeting and a January 2009 planning session. Many of the papers in this issue emerged from or were influenced by these meetings.
authors.affiliation: Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. pmars@learnlink.emory.edu
authors.forename: Pat
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marsteller
authors.forename: Lisette
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de Pillis
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Findley
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Joplin
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pelesko
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Katerina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Usher
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Watkins
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology / Q000193:education*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D008433:Mathematics / Q000193:education*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D014495:Universities
references.citation: Science. 2000 May 5;288(5467):807
references.pmid: 10809649
references.citation: CBE Life Sci Educ. 2010 Spring;9(1):10-6
references.pmid: 20194802