The ChemCUREs project (NSF Award #1712141)<b> </b>implements a Course-based Research Experience (CURE) sequence in Chemistry that links a lower-division, organic chemistry course to an upper-division, analytical chemistry course. The focus of student research is on the tardigrade, a microscopic extremophile, which produces sugar molecules to survive desiccation and freezing. ChemCUREs students first create a range of modified sugar molecules in the organic CURE, and then test the behavior of those molecules within membranes in the analytical CURE. The study of these modified sugar molecules should lead to insights for the development of new cell preservatives. In order to ascertain the causal mechanisms underlying the effectiveness and sustainability of CUREs within the normal chemistry curriculum, we are conducting comprehensive education research. Results from the CURE and LCAS surveys, validated course assessment and focus group interviews for the first cohort of students will be presented as well as results from the student conducted research.

Results from a linked, organic to analytical, course-based undergraduate research experience - ChemCUREs

2019 Spring National Meeting

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