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  http://www.simiode.org

  
  
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  I am an Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Sciences from the US Military Academy at West Point NY. I took my doctorate in abstract mathematics, ring theory in abstract algebra, but I have moved far from this field. Indeed, my firsts taste of mathematics and biology occurred in the science library of the liberal arts college at which I taught, Albion College, when I picked up a copy of The American Naturalist in the mid 1970's. There followed a fascination with all things bio and mathematics. I was not a researcher, rather I was a teacher and I attempted to bring in models to my classes to motivate study whenever I could. I then took an NSF workshop, Microcomputer Models in Life Sciences, with Jim Spain, a biochemist at Michigan Technological University and co-direced the workshops for some 8 years. I co-designed, co-lead, and co-built the Integrated First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (IFYCSEM) with my colleague DR Jeffrey Froyd (now at Texas A&M University, College of Engineering) and others in a team of faculty - chemists, physicists, computer scientists, engineers, more mathematicians. IFYCSEM offered first year students ALL their STEM course work in one 12 credit course which was team taught to a cohort of 90 students by a team of 8 faculty. The project was heavily supported by the National Science Foundation, GE Foundation, and Lilly Endownment. However, while the project lasted well beyond the NSF funding which gave us the kick start we were not skilled enough to convince sufficient numbers of our colleagues to support the IFYCSEM effort and so it did not continue beyond about 11 years. I founded, published, and edited several academic journals among them Cryptologia (1977) and PRIMUS- Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies (1991) and have published many articles on teaching mathematics. I am particularly interested in modeling in many areas, with keen interest in life sciences, using differential equation models. Currently, we are building a community of learners and teachers of differential equations in which modeling scenarios and technology use are central to the learning process, both at the inception and throughout. We call it SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations and its ever evolving home is www.simiode.org. Mathematical modeling in life sciences plays a significant role int he materials we offer in SIMIODE. Participation is FREE with special groups of common interest, e.g., Teachers, Students, Government, Industry, etc. Just register and explore at www.simiode.org. We are in need of contributors who can write up differential modeling scenarios which offer a modeling context for teaching differential equations. See the many examples already posted at www.simiode.org. Thank you.

  
  
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  Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point NY 10996 USA

  
  
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