Front Cover -- Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences: Models, Processes, and Directions -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword: Looking Backward and Moving Forward in Undergraduate Life Science Quantitative Education -- Foreword: An Invitation to BIO SIGMAA -- Preface -- General Introduction -- I Models -- 1 BioCalc at Illinois -- 2 Biocalculus at Benedictine University -- 3 Implementation of First Year Biomath Courses at the Ohio State University -- 4 Teaching Calculus, Probability, and Statistics to Undergraduate Life Science Majors: A Unified Approach -- 5 The First Year of Calculus and Statistics at Macalester College -- 6 Biology in Mathematics at the University of Richmond -- 7 A Terminal Post-Calculus-I Mathematics Course for Biology Students -- 8 Modeling Nature and the Nature of Modeling-an Integrative Modeling Approach -- 9 Mathematical Biology and Computational Algebra at the Sophomore Level -- 10 An Interdisciplinary Research Course in Theoretical Ecology for Young Undergraduates -- 11 An Interdisciplinary Course, Textbook, and Laboratory Manual in Biomathematics with Emphasis on Current Biomedical Research -- 12 Teaching Bioinformatics in a Mathematics Department -- 13 SYMBIOSIS: An Integration of Biology, Math and Statistics at the Freshman Level: Walking Together Instead of on Opposite Sides of the Street -- II Processes -- 14 Science One: Integrating Mathematical Biology into a First-Year Program -- 15 Planning for the Long Term -- 16 Some Lessons from Fifteen Years of Educational Initiatives at the Interface between Mathematics and Biology: The Entry-Level Course -- 17 A "Wet-Lab" Calculus for the Life Sciences -- 18 Creating an Interdisciplinary Research Course in Mathematical Biology -- 19 Bioinformatics: An Example of a Cooperative Learning Course.

20 Integrating Statistics and General Biology I in a Learning Community -- 21 Constructing an Undergraduate BioMath Curriculum at a Large University: Developing First Year Biomath Courses at The Ohio State University -- 22 Initial Steps Towards an Integration of Qualitative Thinking into the Teaching of Biology at a Large Public University -- III Directions -- 23 Integrating Statistics into College Algebra to Meet the Needs of Biology Students -- 24 Motivating Calculus with Biology -- 25 Computational Systems Biology: Discrete Models of Gene Regulation Networks -- 26 Creating Quantitative Biologists: The Immediate Future of SYMBIOSIS -- About the Editors.