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CUR Releases Updated ‘Characteristics of Excellence in Undergraduate Research’ to Serve as a Roadmap to Building Impactful Undergraduate Research Experiences

The Council on Undergraduate Research provides guidance for a new era of excellence in undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative inquiry.
20-Aug-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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CUR Names NAU’s Lee as Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor 2024 Awardee

Dr. Naomi Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University, an NIH Early-Stage Investigator, an officer in the Army Reserves, and a member of the Seneca Nation, has been selected as the 2024...
7-Jun-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Richmond’s Vázquez Selected as 2024 CURAH Faculty Mentor Awardee

Dr. Karina Elizabeth Vázquez, Community-Based Learning Director in the Department of Latin America, Latino, & Iberian Studies at the University of Richmond, has been selected as the 2024 Council on Undergraduate Research – Arts and Humanities...
7-Jun-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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CoA’s Anderson Selected as 2024 CUR-Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor Awardee

Dr. John Anderson, W.H. Drury Professor of Ecology and Natural History at College of the Atlantic (COA) in Bar Harbor, ME, has been selected as the 2024 Council on Undergraduate Research – Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor Awardee.
31-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Westminster College’s Resendes Elected as 2024-2025 Council on Undergraduate Research Treasurer

Dr. Karen K. Resendes, Associate Dean of Assessment and the First Year Experience, Professor of Biology at Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA), has been elected to serve as the Council on Undergraduate Research Board of Directors’ Treasurer...
17-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Valdosta State University’s LaPlant Elected as 2025-2026 Council on Undergraduate Research President

Dr. James T. LaPlant, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences for Valdosta State University (Valdosta, GA), has been elected to serve as president of the Council on Undergraduate Research for the membership year 2025-2026.
17-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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2023 AURA Awardees Announced: College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University; University of Florida; Worcester Polytechnic Institute

CUR congratulates its 2023 Campus-Wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments (AURA) awardees College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University (CSBSJU) (St. Joseph, MN), University of Florida (UF) (Gainesville, FL), and Worchester...
28-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST Add to Favorites

NCUR 2025 to Take Place in Pittsburgh, PA

The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has selected the city of Pittsburgh to hold the 2025 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in partnership with Duquesne University and the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education.
9-Nov-2023 9:30 AM EST Add to Favorites


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The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), founded in 1978, is a national organization of individual and institutional members representing more than 900 colleges and universities. CUR and its affiliated colleges, universities, and individuals share a focus on providing undergraduate research opportunities for faculty and students at all institutions serving undergraduate students. CUR believes that faculty members enhance their teaching and contribution to society by remaining active in research and by involving undergraduates in research. CUR’s leadership works with agencies and foundations to enhance research opportunities for faculty and students. CUR provides support for faculty development. Its publications and outreach activities are designed to share successful models and strategies for establishing and institutionalizing undergraduate research programs. The organization assists administrators and faculty members in improving and assessing the research environment at their institutions. CUR also provides information on the importance of undergraduate research to state legislatures, private foundations, government agencies, and the U.S. Congress. CUR welcomes faculty and administrators from all academic institutions. Its primary advocacy is in support of faculty and undergraduate students engaged in research. CUR achieves its vision through efforts of its membership as organized in a divisional structure that includes arts and humanities, biology, chemistry, geosciences, health sciences, mathematics and computer sciences, physics and astronomy, psychology, social sciences, an at-large division that serves administrators and other disciplines, and a division for directors of undergraduate research programs.

Definition of Undergraduate Research: An inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline.

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