Council on Undergraduate Research

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Council on Undergraduate Research
The mission of the Council on Undergraduate Resear
ch is to support and promote high-quality undergra
duate student-faculty collaborative research and
scholarship.

Faculty Individual Membership Leadership
Opportunities as CUR Officers or
Councilors Publishing Opportunities in the
CUR Quarterly and Publications CUR
Fellows Award Can participate in Individual
Institutes
Institutions Institutional Membership Can
send students to Posters on the Hill Can
participate in Institutional Institutes Use
CUR Consulting or Program Review
Services Recognition of institutional best
practices in the CUR Quarterly,
highlights on the CUR Website
Students Student Membership Presentation
Opportunities at Posters on the Hill or
the National Conferences on
Undergraduate Research Recognition
Opportunities by submitting an
Undergraduate Research Highlight in Quarterly
Participation in Undergraduate Registry
Advocacy CUR provides information regarding
national funding, upcoming events, and
national volunteer opportunities CUR
issues Call to Action notices to its
members to help inform members of
Congress about Undergraduate Research
Washington Partners Update and E-Newsletter

• Meetings
• National Conference brings together faculty,
  administrators, policy makers, representatives of
  funding agencies and other stakeholders with an
  interest in doing and promoting undergraduate
  research. Includes over 100 workshops,
  presentations by representatives of funding
  agencies and social interactions.
• CUR Dialogues designed to bring faculty and
  administrators to Washington, D.C. to interact
  with federal agency program officers and grant
  funders. 
• Institutes Smaller, regional meetings on topics
  in undergraduate research
• Proposal Writing
• Mentorship, Collaboration Undergraduate
  Research in the Social Sciences Humanities
• Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research
  Programs
• Beginning a Research Program in the Natural
  Sciences at a Predominantly Undergraduate
  Institution
• Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research
• Posters on the Hill held on Capitol hill, this
  event showcases impressive accomplishments of
  individual students, and the tremendous potential
  of undergraduate research for producing
  breakthrough discoveries as well as encouraging
  careers in STEM.

Services Consulting these services are provided
by academic professionals who share our vision
and goals, and who have thought deeply about
undergraduate education. The consultants will
help you assess or evaluate, prepare or devise,
design or enhance, any facet of your
undergraduate research program. Program Review
the program review committee can assist you with
evaluating your curriculum, program, department,
or division, preparing for an accreditation
visit, or transforming or rejuvenating a
department. The service offers impartial third
party credibility, is cost effective, and has
sensitivity to issues relevant to predominantly
undergraduate institutions. CUR Fellows Awards
The awards are presented to members who have
developed nationally respected research programs
involving undergraduates. Awardees have
outstanding records of obtaining funding for
their work and for their students, and have
published research findings with undergraduate
co-authors. They include all backgrounds,
incorporate research activities into the courses
they teach, and lead efforts to institutionalize
research on their campuses and across the
nation. Mentor Network This program matches
individuals seeking information about starting,
sustaining, or re-initiating undergraduate
research programs to experienced, tenured CUR
faculty.  Speakers Bureau provides an
opportunity for institutions to host speakers who
can talk first-hand about the high caliber
research in several disciplines being conducted
at primarily undergraduate research programs.
Members Only Website This site was developed
to provide password-protected information and
services exclusively to members. It includes
information related to advocacy, member services,
and funding sources. CUR List-Serv A list-serv
open to any individual that wishes to discuss
pertinent information related to undergraduate
research programs.
Featured Publications Broadening Participation in
Undergraduate Research  Fostering Excellence and
Enhancing the Impact Developing and Sustaining a
Research-Supportive Curriculum A Compendium of
Successful Practices Reading, Writing,
Research Undergraduate Students as Scholars in
Literary Studies Science in Solution The Impact
of Undergraduate Research on Student Learning
Project Publications Transformative Research at
Predominately Undergraduate I Undergraduate
Research at Community Colleges Reinvigorating the
Undergraduate Experience Successful Models
Supported by NSFs AIRE/RAIRE Program How To
Series How to Get Started in Research How to
Develop and Administer Institutional
Undergraduate Research Programs How to Mentor
Undergraduate Researchers How to Get a
Tenure-Track Position at a Predominantly
Undergraduate Institution All of the above
publications are available for purchase on the
CUR Website at http//www.cur.org/Publications.h
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