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Starting Your Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience: Considerations and Tools

This presentation explores the benefits and considerations of implementing a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) for faculty and students. It provides insights, resources, and examples of CUREs, including home brew kits, kit modifications, and national network options. The presentation also addresses key considerations such as goals, resource needs, skills, time, lab safety, inclusion, evaluation, and sustainability. Relevant tools and resources are provided, including textbooks, alignment guides, and biotechnology kits.

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Starting Your Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience: Considerations and Tools

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  1. The “You” in “CUREs” Considerations and Tools for Starting Your Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience Presented by Ian Harwood for the American Society of Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) August 2, 2019

  2. Let’s start with some research! Who is currently or has taught a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)? Who wants to / is considering teaching a CURE? Why? Who may be teaching a CURE (for other reasons)? Why?

  3. Primary goal of undergraduate “research” varies: • Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) - 95% 4yr, 5% 2yr“original intellectual or creative contribution”Research for knowledge contribution • Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI) - 100% 2 yr“Engage, Explore, Connect”Research for pedagogy

  4. CURE benefits for students • Increase interest, sense of ownership • Develop skills (technical, analytical, communication) • Contextualize • Increase confidence • Explore career options • Increase degree completion Addresses NSF and AAAS’s Vision & Change in Undergraduate Biology Education

  5. CURE benefits for faculty and institutions • Connect students with/benefit their research • Increase teaching enjoyment • Benefit promotion/tenure • Increase inclusivity/equity • Increased student retention

  6. CURE landscape Home Brew Kit/ Kit Mod National Network

  7. CURE - Home Brew • Tailor to instructor, institution, and community interests • Self-design protocols; self-source materials • Instructors: greatest sense of ownership • Many examples

  8. CURE - Kit / Kit Mod • Ready-to-go protocols and materials • Support from vendor (varies: for Bio-Rad, access to tech support, workshops, Curriculum & Training Specialists (CTSs)) • Easy, rapid startup • Predictable costs

  9. CURE - Kit example - Cloning & Sequencing Series

  10. Choose local plants • Modular, flexible • Ability to continue workflow even with “failure” • Designed for CC

  11. CURE - Kit Mod -pGLOpGLO ThINQ! • Familiar and reliable • ThINQ! introduces inquiry • Can expand from either: growthconditions, media, antibiotics, transformation efficiency • Gemonic, cell and microbio, proteins as reporters

  12. CURE - National Network • Ready-to-go validated protocols and curriculum • Shared data databases • Lab materials either from organization or self-source • Preferred pricing access • Support from organization and colleagues • Training workshops • Events: symposia, student poster presentations

  13. CCURI - Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative • 145 institutions, USA (+1 CAN) • insect DNA barcoding

  14. Tiny Earth • 279 institutions, mostly US and Europe • Bacterial DNA barcoding, antibiotic discovery

  15. Getting started considerations • Goals (research, student)? • Activity? Resource needs? Skills needed/learning stage? • Student choices and guidance/staff role? • Time? • Lab manual? Curriculum • Lab hazards? • Inclusion/equity? • Evaluation? • Impact/relevance beyond the course? • Sustainability / scalability? Consider science and student/faculty/institution benefits

  16. Barriers and Solutions Hewlett: Broadening Participation in Undergraduate Research Experiences (UREs): The Expanding Role of the Community College

  17. Tools and Resources Biotechnology: A Laboratory Skills Course textbook - lab manual, aligned with kits CUREs Methods and Materials Alignment Guide (Bulletin 7140) - method/project and product alignment Additional resource links and literature at end of slide deck

  18. Questions? Comments? Thoughts? Question Comment

  19. Questions? bio-rad_explorer@bio-rad.com Products: Cloning and Sequencing Explorer Series (1665000EDU) pGLO Bacterial Transformation Kit (1660003EDU) pGLO Transformation and Inquiry Kit (1660335EDU) Biotechnology: A Laboratory Skills Course, Teacher Edition (17004717EDU)

  20. Where can I buy Explorer kits & equipment? explorer.bio-rad.com 1-800-4BIORAD bio-rad_explorer@bio-rad.com

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