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Overview of Fisk University

Overview of Fisk University. N. Horace Mann III Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Fisk University. Description and Demographics. Small, historically-black institution founded in 1866 Academic emphasis in liberal arts and science

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Overview of Fisk University

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  1. Overview of Fisk University N. Horace Mann IIIProfessorDepartment of Mathematics andComputer ScienceFisk University

  2. Description and Demographics • Small, historically-black institution founded in 1866 • Academic emphasis in liberal arts and science • Approximately 850 students from more than 40 states (70% female) • Forty (40) percent are science majors

  3. History of Achievements • First HBCU to be awarded university status • First HBCU to gain accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1930) • First HBCU to charter a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (1952) • In proportion to enrollment, more Fisk graduates earn PhD’s than any other school • One-in-six of all African-American physicians is a Fisk graduate

  4. Science Academic Programs (1) • Division of Natural Science and Mathematics • Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics and Computer Science • Dual degree in engineering through Vanderbilt University and Howard University • Cross-enrollment with Vanderbilt in all areas including engineering • Internationally-renown NASA Center for Photonic Materials

  5. Science Academic Programs (2) • Strong support for biology from the Howard Hughes Institute • Several funded research and education projects for Computer Science from NSF, NIGMS, and the DOE

  6. End User Lumbar Spine Outcome Explorer (LSOE) SF-36 Core Survey Medical Informatics/Biocomputing

  7. Student Example #1 • Physics graduate student earning a second BS in Computer Science • Teamed with a Meharry microbiologist whose work is related to the Genome Project • Student uses the physical concept of entropy to quantify the information content of strands of DNA • Student is taking a sequential program that performs this calculation and is “parallelizing” it

  8. Potential Benefits ofMSI Availability • Graduate students at Fisk may receive distance learning courseware from the MSI project • Participate in the Summer Institute to be offered at Purdue • Resources of the MSI may be integrated into upper-level undergraduate courses to introduce students to state-of-the art concepts of computational science

  9. Student Example #2 • Senior undergraduate student earning a BS degree in Computer Science • Teamed with a Meharry microbiologist whose work is related to the Genome Project • Student is configuring a data warehouse for mass storage of DNA sequences and developing a pattern recognition module that will identify sequences of interest • Must apply database technology, software engineering, along with implementing pattern recognition algorithms

  10. Potential Benefits of MSI Availability • Resources from the MSI may be integrated into upper-level undergraduate courses to introduce students to advanced networking and data storage technology • Graduate students and faculty involved with the MSI may help in developing learning courseware for computer science courses and serve as TA’s • Increase Fisk computer science students likelihood of pursuing graduate degrees in computational science

  11. Possible Long-term Benefits to Fisk Due to the MSI (1) • Increased access to resources of Carnegie Research I class institution(s) • Development of an MSI node at Fisk and attachment to regional grid • Better preparation and increased likelihood for success at major research institutions on the graduate level • More potential to develop funded research and education projects at a small, teaching-oriented university

  12. Possible Long-term Benefits to Fisk Due to the MSI (2) • Supports solicitation of funding from the National Library of Medicine Office of High Performance Computing and Communications program in Biomedical Applications of the Next Generation Internet (RFP NLM 99-106/RMC) • Supports solicitation of funding from the National Science Foundation Minority Institution Infrastructure of the CISE directorate

  13. Closing Remarks

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