Mathematical Biology Education: Changes, Communities, Connections, and Challenges
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Mathematical Biology Education: Changes, Communities, Connections, and Challenges John R. Jungck1 · Raina Robeva2 · Louis J. Gross3 © Society for Mathematical Biology 2020
Mathematical biologists have been leaders in many of the programmatic efforts over the past 60 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. In planning the issue, we discussed how the variety of methods to cover mathematics for biology students have changed since the Cullowhee Conference on Training in Biomathematics held in 1961 at Western Carolina (see Rashevsky 1962) and the NRC/NAS publication of Bio 2010. When Bio 2010 initially appeared, a special conference at NIH organized by MAA brought together three funders: NSF, NIH, and HHMI to address the challenges and an edited collection of responses appeared in book format: “Math and Bio 2010: linking undergraduate disciplines” (2005) edited by Steen. Since the re-activation of the Educational Committee of the Society for Mathematical Biology in 1996, authors have been invited to submit educational articles to the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, but this is the first special issue on education. The timing for this issue is propitious because it has been ten years since a National Academy of Sciences symposium celebration of the NRC/NAS (2003) publication Bio 2010. While three major publications resulted from that symposium: (1) a special issue of cbe Life Science Education (2010) edited by Jungck and Marsteller; (2) a special issue of Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (2011) edited by Jungck and Schwartz; and (3) Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences: Models, Processes, and Directions (2013) edited by Ledder, Carpenter, and Comar, there has been a significant change in the past decade and many resources were not described in
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John R. Jungck [email protected] Raina Robeva [email protected] Louis J. Gross [email protected]
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University of Delaware, Newark, USA
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Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, USA
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA 0123456789().: V,-vol
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these previous publications. We sought to supplement, update, and look to the future by developing an issue addressing challenges as well as assessing progress made since these earlier calls. We think that this opportunity of a special issue is important for our community. Education has been valued by the SMB community for a long time. In the sixties and seventies, Chorbijian (1970) and Fred (Buck) McMorris led the original educational committee. After Gross (1994, 2000) organized two workshops at the University of Tennessee, follow up workshops were hosted by Iowa State (Jim Cornette), UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico-Jorge Velasco Hernandez), the University of Illinois (Sondra Lazarowitz and Jerry Uhl), and the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium (Jungck 1997a, b). This led to the revival of the form
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