Undergraduate

Center for Complex Biological Systems (UC, Irvine)

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.

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)

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.

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.

Duke Center for Systems Biology

A major outreach effort of the Duke Center for Systems Biology has been the implementation of a complex genetics course “Human Diseases & Plant Stress: Understanding Complex Genetic Traits,” at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). NCCU is a historically black university located in Durham, near Duke’s campus. After developing a course curriculum, procuring instructors from several of Duke’s departments, and recruiting NCCU students, Duke’s Center for Systems Biology pioneered this course at NCCU in the fall semester of 2009.

Courses on systems biology are taught by DCSB faculty each semester at Duke. Courses are offered at the undergraduate and graduate level, and they span several departments, including physics, math, stats, biology and engineering.

Systems Biology Summer Undergraduate Fellowships are available at DCSB. Fellows research in systems biology topics for ten weeks each summer. The application process is being managed by the IGSP, and information on how to apply is available here, but one important difference is that Systems Biology Summer Fellowships are open not just to freshman and sophomores, but also juniors and seniors.

Systems Biology Center New York (SBCNY)

Summer Undergraduate Research Program
The Systems Biology Center New York (SBCNY) offers summer research fellowships to City University of New York (CUNY) undergraduates who are planning to pursue PhD or MD/PhD degree programs and are interested in incorporating systems biology approaches into the research that they pursue. The SBCNY Summer Undergraduate Research Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine is a full-time 10-week research-intensive computational systems biology training program within laboratories of the Center. The fellowship provides a stipend for the research training period from June 4, 2012 to August 10, 2012.

Ten week research intensive hands-on computational systems biology training program at the Systems Biology Center New York located at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Students majoring in Biological, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences are encouraged to apply

Weekly research seminar series

Students present their research at the conclusion of the program at the SBCNY Summer Research Program Poster Session

Open to US Citizens and US Permanent Residents

Please visit www.sbcny.org for application materials and complete program details.