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Outreach: Influencing STEM Knowledge

in Preparing a Diverse STEM Workforce

Undergraduate opportunities in mathematical biology

Educating undergraduates about the integration of mathematics and biology and enticing them into STEM fields in graduate school is the purpose of a series of lectures given at Bowdoin College, the Claremont Colleges, Ohio State University, Rockhurst University in Missouri, the University of Utah, Augsburg College, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Alberta by IGERT faculty and trainees. Topics ranged from a mathematician's look at blood clotting, the mathematics of heart attacks, the mathematical estimation of whole-forest uptake and release of carbon, and the opportunities for interdisciplinary research in mathematical biology.