Mentoring Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Students via a Team Effort
| Autor: | Jeff Knisley, Anant P. Godbole, Lev Y. Yampolsky, Istvan Karsai, Debra J. Knisley |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Interdisciplinary Studies Science education General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Quantitative biology Field (computer science) Education 03 medical and health sciences Pedagogy Mathematics education ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Humans Cooperative Behavior Students Curriculum Biology 030304 developmental biology Mathematics Interdisciplinarity media_common Essays 0303 health sciences Teamwork Mathematical and theoretical biology 4. Education Research 05 social sciences Mentors 050301 education Undergraduate research 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | CBE Life Sciences Education |
| ISSN: | 1931-7913 |
| Popis: | We describe how a team approach that we developed as a mentoring strategy can be used to recruit, advance, and guide students to be more interested in the interdisciplinary field of mathematical biology, and lead to success in undergraduate research in this field. Students are introduced to research in their first semester via lab rotations. Their participation in the research of four faculty members—two from biology and two from mathematics—gives them a first-hand overview of research in quantitative biology and also some initial experience in research itself. However, one of the primary goals of the lab rotation experience is that of developing teams of students and faculty that combine mathematics and statistics with biology and the life sciences, teams that subsequently mentor undergraduate research in genuine interdisciplinary environments. Thus, the team concept serves not only as a means of establishing interdisciplinary research, but also as a means of incorporating new students into existing research efforts that will then track those students into meaningful research of their own. We report how the team concept is used to support undergraduate research in mathematical biology and what types of team-building strategies have worked for us. |
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