This Mathematics in the Life Sciences initiative is one of only five of its kind selected in 2009 for PRISM grant funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF). If selected as an MLS Fellow, you will be challenged to re-think basic assumptions about mathematics and the life sciences. If selected for this program, you will be part of a unique Mathematics in the Life Sciences (MLS) learning community. For more information on program specifics and in order to apply, please visit our online application page.
Sincerely,
Dix Pettey
Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences ProgramCongratulations to 2009 MLS Fellow Josh Santoli
Josh spent the summer of 2011 completing a summer research internship with the NASA-funded National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) at the Ames Research Center in California. Only 136 students have been accepted into the program since 1998 and Josh was one of only three students selected to participate this year.
2009 Fellows discuss the influence of the MLS program on their understandings of the connections between mathematics and the life sciences:
"Although I knew math was important to science, I didn't necessarily realize the scope of its use and the level of math used. It's hard to pick out one example from so many, but its much clearer to me now how relationships observed can be better described and understood with mathematics."
"I didn't really realize how much math was involved in various biological occurrences. It seems like everything can be expressed mathematically."
"I really do have a much better understanding of the connections between math and science now than I did at the beginning of the year. The first semester, I got a lot of hands on and interesting ways math applied to science, and in the second semester, I got to see how researchers today are combining the math and sciences in their own research projects."