The Mathematical Biology program is Truman's effort to provide students with the learning experiences and training that they will need to be competitive in the rapidly changing life sciences marketplace.

Using questions that illuminate the interdependence of the biological and mathematical sciences, students learn how to approach a question from an interdisciplinary perspective. This requires mathematics majors to learn the language biology and its ways of knowing, and it requires biologists to appreciate the power of modeling (mathematical, statistical, and computational) as well as the way a mathematical scientist approaches a problem. The program is not transforming biology majors into mathematics majors (or minors!), or vice versa. It is providing students with experiences that allowed them to learn to operate in an interdisciplinary, team-based environment.

The program offers students and faculty courses, research experiences, and a seminar series, all of which were developed with support from the National Science Foundation and Truman State University

This program has a national reputation for its quality. Students who have participated in this program have joined the ranks of young innovators in interdisciplinary graduate programs, teacher training programs, medical school, and interdisciplinary careers.