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Applied Physics graduate student Tamara Chiba describes the monthly Single Molecule Discussion Group seminar series.

2009 Sackler Undergraduate Fellow Neema Hooker worked with faculty mentor Prof. Corey Wilson on genetic circuits during her summer fellowship. She is a biochemistry major (Class of 2011) at Claflin University, has performed genetics research in the laboratory of Dr. Randall Harris in the Department of Biology at Claflin, and presented her research findings at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in 2008. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences after graduation.

Student mentor tutors 7th and 8th graders in the Breakthrough New Haven After School Program.

It is increasingly clear that quantitative, integrated research approaches will be necessary to solve future grand challenges in the biological and life sciences. We are committed to a new paradigm for graduate and faculty education that transcends traditional, but artificial, boundaries both between disciplines and between research, teaching, and learning. Yale's Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology (IGPPEB) will train a new generation of scientists, who are skilled at applying physics and engineering methods and reasoning to biological research, and sufficiently sophisticated in their biological training, that they will readily identify, and tackle, cutting-edge problems in the life sciences.

Research and education in the IGPPEB will be organized around eight overlapping and integrated research thrusts that are focused on one of the most important scientific questions in the twenty-first century: How do molecular, cellular and ultimately human behaviors emerge from the myriad decision events that occur within biological systems. Innovative components of the IGPPEB include a balance of students from physical and biological undergraduate backgrounds; reciprocal peer tutoring in "boot camp"-style courses that will establish a common mathematical/physical and biological language; students learning together and from each other in introductory courses, "Biological Physics," "Biological Systems and Processes," and "Integrated Workshop," an emphasis on the importance of computational approaches via introductory and advanced classes in computation and simulation; and joint mentoring by faculty from physics, engineering, and biology backgrounds.