College Students and Faculty
College
REU and REV program
NIMBioS will sponsor Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Research Experiences for Veterinary Students again in 2010. Veterinary students (DVM or VMD) and undergraduate majors in math, biology, and related fields will live on campus June 7 through July 30 and work in teams with UTK professors on research projects.
Coming soon: 2nd Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics
Undergraduate Research Conference - 2009
NIMBioS organized and hosted an Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface Between Biology and Mathematics Oct. 23-24, 2009. Faculty and Minority Serving Institution partners and high school teachers were invited to see the research of these undergraduates.
Click here for conference schedule.
R Seminar
An R seminar was co-sponsored by NIMBioS and the University of Tennessee’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department to help students learn how to use the statistical package R. This has resulted in a guide to R for Biologists that is openly available from NIMBioS.
High-Performance Computing Tutorial
This tutorial focused on presenting the tools necessary for organizations and individuals to leverage computational resources for research at the interface of biological/computational/mathematical research.
Faculty
NUMB3RS COUNT!
NIMBioS co-sponsored, along with HHMI and BioQuest, a faculty workshop called NUMB3RS COUNT! (May 29-31, 2009), which addressed the gap between mathematics and its application in biological problem solving. Participants worked in small groups to explore mathematical modeling and visualization with data.
Undergraduate Biology Curriculum Workshop
NIMBioS, SCALE-IT, and BioQuest co-sponsored an Undergraduate Biology Curriculum Workshop called
Integrating Bioinformatics and Molecular Visualization into the Undergraduate Biology Curriculum (June 22-26) for faculty on bioinformatics and visualization, which are rapidly developing research approaches throughout the biological, physical, and mathematical sciences curriculum. The emphasis was on creating teaching units that apply biological problem solving strategies to real problems in medicine, epidemiology, forensics, agriculture, and conservation.
Contacts
Dr. Suzanne Lenhart
Associate Director of Education, Outreach, and Diversity
Email: lenhart@math.utk.edu
Phone: (865) 974-4270 Fax: (865) 974-9461
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
University of Tennessee
1534 White Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37996-1527
