We describe the development of a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) curriculum in four chemistry laboratory courses at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo, a primarily undergraduate institution. The CUREs are introduced in students’ first year laboratory experiences and are scaffolded in a multi-year sequence spanning a range of chemistry sub-disciplines (general, organic, inorganic, capstone) throughout a 4-year curriculum. The program differs from previous CURE examples in that the in-lab research skills are implemented in a unified fashion during all four years of the undergraduate chemistry program, which is hypothesized to maximize the benefits of CURE experiences compared to stand-alone, one semester experiences. We present preliminary results from the first-year implementation of this program, involving a first-year, general chemistry CURE focused on the characterization of gold nanoparticle constructs for bio-detection schemes.

Development and Implementation of a multi-year, CURE-based chemistry lab curriculum

ACS Spring 2022

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