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Become a Councilor
CUR Councilors are elected to 3-year terms and are expected to attend the yearly business meetings held in June where they participate in helping shape the future of CUR and undergraduate research. Each Councilor serves on a committee where much of the work of CUR gets done. Feel free to contact the current CUR Biology Councilors directly with questions. If you are interested in becoming a Councilor please contact Evelyn Hiatt.
Biology Travel Awards The Biology Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) is offering a limited number of travel grants, up to $250 each, for undergraduate students presenting original research results at a regional or national, discipline-specific meeting during the fiscal year 2009-2010. Award recipients are required to acknowledge CUR for support of their travel in their talk or poster. Minority students are encouraged to apply. For more information, please visit: http://www.cur.org/biostudenttravel.html
CUR-L ListServ
CUR members have direct access to each other and use it frequently. Here you can participate in debates about various aspects of undergraduate research, ask and answer questions about how others deal with certain problems, or do anything else you want it to do for you. Directions for subscribing to the general CUR List-serv can be found at http://www.cur.org/curlsubscribe.html.
The CUR Biology Division also hosts a list-serv for biology division members. To subscribe to this list-serv, please visit: http://www.cur.org/biosubscribe.html
The Biology Division of CUR serves to support research with undergraduates in a variety of ways:
Grant Preview Service
Experienced Division members (volunteers) will read rough drafts or nearly complete research proposals and can provide valuable feedback prior to final submission. For more information please contact the division chair Ami Ahern-Rindell at ahernin@up.edu
CUR Biology Consultants Program
The Division has for many years conducted reviews of Biology Departments at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions. For more information please submit a request through the CUR Consultants website at http://www.cur.org/Consulting/request.asp
National Conference Activities
The Division runs a number of workshops and roundtable discussions of specific interest to Biology faculty at each National Conference. Visit /conferences.html for more information about upcoming meetings.
CUR Posters on the Hill
The Biology Division also participates in Posters on Capitol Hill Should you have any questions, about this program, please contact the Biology Division representative, Rachelle Spell at rspell@emory.edu
How To booklets “How To Get Started in Research” , now in its second edition, written by Bert Holmes and Thomas Goodwin "How to Develop and Administer Institutional Undergraduate Research Programs", 1999, by Toufic Hakim "How to Get a Tenure-Track Position at a Predominately Undergraduate Institution", 2000, by Patricia Videtich, Michelle Bushey and Deborah Lycan. "How to Mentor Undergraduates" will be available in the summer of 2002 Visit /publications.html to order you publications online.
CUR PR Efforts One of the most important behind-the-scenes activities of CUR is working on science policy and government relations issues with congress and the US federal agencies. Previous efforts by CUR were critical in realizing NSF's RUI program and NIH's AREA program. CUR continues to work with legislators to help them understand the importance of research in undergraduate education. The April Dialog and the Posters on the Hill activities are directly targeted to doing this (see above). In addition, our Presidents and NEOs have provided testimony to Congress about issues in undergraduate science education.
CUR Institutes CUR currently runs the following institutes — Biologists have been prominently involved in the planning and organization of these three Institutes. To learn more click here.
Research Links 2000 Program Research Link 2000 is a project of The Council on Undergraduate Research to bring together biology faculty from colleges and universities to select, develop and disseminate a group of field-tested, experimental systems and instructional materials to support the introduction of research-based experiments in introductory biology courses. It promotes research activities by students and faculty on all levels of the undergraduate curriculum. Research Link 2000 consists of two major components: LabCore: a collection of field-tested descriptions of research systems or model organisms. Each unit in the collection describes a model organism or model system, research techniques, and suggested research-based lab experiments that can be easily incorporated into a general biology laboratory. LabLink: a web site that connects faculty and undergraduate students, permitting them to share data, discuss results, and explore and discover connections in related laboratory experiments. LabLink provides linkages to related web sites to provide background information and applications that relate the lab experiments to the world. The web site provides references, techniques, and sources for securing stock cultures assistance in setting up a LabCore and implementing research-based labs.
The following major activities have been completed: The Research Link 2000 conference—to select the research systems (Fall, 1997) The Research Link 2000 conference—to perfect the research systems (Summer, 1998) Research Link 2000 Institute—to disseminate the research systems (Summer, 1999)
Future activities include further development of resources on the LabLink website, and a series of workshops to share development of the research systems for student use. For further information, please go to the Research Link 2000 website. In addition to the activities outlined above, the Division is always open to new ideas and encourages input from members. The National Conference is a wonderful forum for faculty involved in research with undergraduates to discuss common problems and help to develop innovative solutions. For more information please contact the Division Chair, Amelia Ahern-Rindell.
BIO 2010 Survey
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