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A Need for CUREs

A group of babyÖ±²¥app representing ten departments and units across University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder produced a white paper submitted to the Academic Futures Initiative in 2017 describing the current need for expanded research experiences for undergraduates and of babyÖ±²¥app seeking to design these courses.  

Also included are descriptions, syllabi, and sample curricula from six courses currently offered in the College of Arts & Sciences.

How to Define a CURE

One of the aims of the National Science Foundation-funded Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences Network (CUREnet) is to create an operational definition of CUREs. Focusing mainly on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, a summary of their first meeting with conclusions as .

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also offers goals for all participants including babyÖ±²¥app and students.

CURE Models

Read more about how CUREs have been implemented in the Ìı»å±ğ±è²¹°ù³Ù³¾±ğ²Ô³Ù.

Erin Dolan from University of Georgia has expertise in designing and assessing outcomes of CUREs. As part of an effort to summarize the current efforts and needs in 2016, she published a .Ìı

National CURE Programs


SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) is a two-semester, discovery-based undergraduate research course that begins with simple digging in the soil to find new viruses, but progresses through a variety of microbiology techniques and eventually to complex genome annotation and bioinformatic analyses.


The Actinobacteriophage Database at PhagesDB.org is a website that collects and shares data, pictures, protocols, and analysis tools associated with the discovery, sequencing, and characterization of —viruses that infect the Mycobacteria and also other bacterial hosts in the phylum Actinobacteria. It was developed at—and is maintained from—the Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute, a joint venture of Dr. Graham HatfullÌı²¹²Ô»åÌıDr. Roger Hendrix, both of the  at the .


This unique class approach harnesses the power of active learning to achieve both educational and scientific goals. SWI is an innovative program that successfully encourages students to pursue careers in science through hands-on experience and real-world applicable laboratory and field research in introductory courses.Ìı

Faculty Resources References:

Shortlidge, Erin E., Bangera, Gita, and Brownell, Sara E. 2017. “. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 18(2): 18.2.29.

Sipress, Joel M. and David J. Voelker. 2009. “.†In Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind, edited by Regan A. R. Gurung, Nancy L. Chick, and Aeron Haynie, 19-35. Sterling, VA: Stylus.