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When undergraduate research becomes the curriculum
Author(s) -
Dolan Erin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.31.1_supplement.108.1
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , undergraduate research , context (archaeology) , undergraduate education , engineering ethics , curriculum , medical education , pedagogy , sociology , political science , engineering , medicine , paleontology , radiology , biology
National calls to improve undergraduate STEM education have emphasized the importance of undergraduate research experiences. Course‐based Undergraduate Research Experiences, or CUREs, involve groups of students in addressing research problems or questions in the context of a class, and have been proposed as scalable ways of involving undergraduates in research. This presentation will offer a definition of CUREs, describe what makes them distinctive from other learning experiences, and highlight results from the Freshman Research Initiative at the University of Texas Austin as a unique and highly impactful CURE model. Support or Funding Information This work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF DBI‐1061874) and two grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI #52005907 and #52006958). The contents of the presentation are solely the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NSF or HHMI.