Undergraduate research has been shown to provide numerous benefits to students, and can increase retention of women and underrepresented minority students in the sciences. However, many (if not most) institutes lack the capacity required to provide each student with a traditional undergraduate research experience. This challenge can be overcome through course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) in which a traditional “cookbook” lab curriculum is replaced with open-ended research activities, and provides many of the same learning opportunities and gains as traditional undergraduate research. This presentation will describe my experiences initiating a CURE in the context of an Advanced Chemical Biology Lab course. Specifically, the presentation will focus on how a CURE can be leveraged to increase capacity for “traditional” undergraduate research experiences and contribute to research productivity by generating peer-reviewed publications.

Leveraging CUREs to increase capacity for traditional undergraduate research experiences and generate student co-authored publications

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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