General News

Moravian’s Sarah K. Johnson Elected to CUR Executive Board

Sarah K. Johnson—associate professor in the Department of Psychology/Neuroscience at Moravian College in Pennsylvania—has been elected to the Executive Board of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Representing CUR’s Psychology Division, Johnson will begin a three-year term on the board in summer 2021.

Texas Tech’s Casadonte Selected as 2021 CUR-Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor Awardee

Dominick J. Casadonte Jr., Minnie Stevens Piper Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas Tech University, is the 2021 CUR-Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor Awardee.

Spring 2021 CUR Psychology Division Newsletter

The Psychology Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research provides networking opportunities, activities, and resources to assist psychology administrators, faculty members, students, practitioners, and others in advancing undergraduate research.

Winter 2021 CUR Physics & Astronomy Division Newsletter

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Spring 2021 CUR Education Division Newsletter

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CFP, Confronting Failure (a CUR publication)

CUR welcomes proposals for the upcoming CUR open-access publication Confronting Failure: Approaches to Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers (proposal deadline May 1, 2021)

Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research Issue Features Nontraditional Approaches

The winter 2020 issue of Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR) focuses on unusual approaches to undergraduate research.

2020 AURA Awardees: Georgia College & State University; Utah State University

CUR announces the recipients of its 2020 Campus-Wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments (AURA): Georgia College & State University (Milledgeville, GA) and Utah State University (Logan, UT)

Honorees Announced, SPUR Best Article Awards (Vol. 3)

The SPUR Best Article subcommittee of the Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research Editorial Board has selected honorees in the inaugural SPUR Best Article Awards: Bruce Evan Blaine (St. John Fisher College, Best Article Awardee); Franziska Nikolov, Constanze Saunders, and Heike Schaumburg (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin / Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Honorable Mention): and Mitchell R. Malachowski (Univ of San Diego, Honorable Mention)