Undergraduate

Information is grouped by Center and the Centers are listed in chronological order with the oldest Center first

Center for Quantitative Biology (Princeton University)

Undergraduate Curriculum in Integrated Science

Integrated Science is a revolutionary new introductory science curriculum developed at Princeton, intended for students considering a career in science. By breaking down traditional disciplinary barriers, a series of courses taken in the freshman and sophomore years provides students with first-rate preparation for a major in any of the core scientific disciplines, and in such a way that helps retain the connections to the other disciplines. The curriculum is founded on the expectation that much of the most important science of the future, though based on the classical disciplines, will lie in areas that span two or more of them.

Center for Systems Biology (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle)

A Bridge: Undergraduate to Graduate Studies in Systems Biology

In collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the departments of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Washington (UW), Center Faculty have developed “Introduction to Systems Biology and Quantitative Approaches to Biomedical Sciences” for graduate students, offered at UW in the winter quarter.

Center for Complex Biological Systems (UC, Irvine)

PRISM - Department of Mathematics

UCI was awarded a five-year, 1.9 M grant from the PRISM (Proactive Recruitment in Introductory Science and Mathematics) program of the National Science Foundation in August 2009. The PI is JackXin (mathematics). The co-PIs are Hongkai Zhao (mathematics), Sarah Eichhorn (mathematics), and Max Welling (information and computer science).

The goal of the PRISM program is to strengthen the nation’s scientific competitiveness by increasing the numbers of well-prepared, successful U.S. undergraduate majors and minors in science and mathematics. The PIs will develop a new undergraduate education and research program at UCI, called UCicamp (UCI Interdisciplinary Computational and Applied Mathematics Program). UCicamp plans to teach mathematics and computation through concrete problems arising from information processing to freshman and sophomore students during the regular school year. Selected number of students will go on to do supervised research in the summer months with full stipend support. UCicamp aims to stimulate the interest of freshman and sophomore students in mathematics, computation and their applications in the digital age.

The PRISM grant is the first major undergraduate education and research grant in the history of UCI mathematics department.

Duke Center for Systems Biology

Courses

Chicago Center for Systems Biology

Systems Biology Courses, The University of Chicago

The Center is coordinating the development of new undergraduate and graduate systems biology courses.

Mentoring Program

Center investigators meet with undergraduates to provide educational mentoring and career advising.