HR: 0800h
AN: ED51D-0038    [Abstracts]
TI: Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR): Faculty Development and Models of Successful Undergraduate Research Programs
AU: * Singer, J
EM: singerjk@buffalostate.edu
AF: Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14075 United States
AU: Fox, L K
EM: lkfox@uop.edu
AF: University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211 United States
AB: The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) supports and promotes high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship. CUR helps to strengthen the research programs of faculty at predominantly undergraduate institutions and promotes research by undergraduate students in all settings of natural and social sciences. CUR organizes faculty development workshops and publishes articles in its CUR Quarterly that feature research models. Through these activities, best practices are honed and disseminated. No single model of undergraduate research exists and therefore CUR seeks to share many examples of undergraduate projects and include details about their implementation. These models can then be adapted by faculty to meet their particular needs. Undergraduate projects can either be devised by the students themselves, or can be an offshoot of a faculty member's own research program. The key is that the project engages students in original research, analysis, conclusions, and dissemination. This presentation will highlight examples of undergraduate research projects in the geosciences conducted by CUR members and included as feature articles in the CUR Quarterly over the past decade.
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting