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CUR Engineering Division Announces 2021 Mentoring Awardees, Student Video Competition Winners

The CUR Engineering Division announces the 2021 recipients of its Mentoring Awards and winners of its Student Video Competition. The mentoring awards recognize mentors who have influenced undergraduate research through direct mentoring of individuals or groups of undergraduate students in engineering research. The video competition is designed to highlight faculty-mentored undergraduate research projects in engineering.

CUR Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division Announces 2021 Faculty Mentor Awardees

The CUR Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division announces the 2021 recipients of its Faculty Mentor Awards, which honor mentors for their success in mentoring undergraduate researchers:

CUR Biology Division Announces 2021 Recipients of Mentor Awards, Small Research Grants

The CUR Biology Division announces the 2021 recipients of its mentor awards and small research grants. The division’s mentor awards recognize exemplary biology mentors for their long-term efforts in supervising undergraduate researchers, and its grants seek to nurture mentored undergraduate research projects that could benefit substantially from a small grant.

Georgia College Alumni Dive into Industry Through Way of Research

By the time Anastasia Kerr-German was a senior in 2014, she had already presented independent research at various conferences, delved into the rigor that goes into designing a research study and worked with three different Georgia College faculty in their research labs. It was those experiences in faculty research labs, that led her to pursue research in her own career—and she’s not alone.

Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research Issue Features Undergraduate Research in Community Colleges

The spring 2021 issue of Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR) focuses on dynamic programs and initiatives advancing undergraduate research at community colleges.

MSU Theatre Students Develop Anthology of Audio Plays to Evoke Conversations Around Social Justice Issues

When the health and safety response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused the Department of Theatre’s entire 2020-2021 production season to be canceled, students were invited to audition for a series of experimental, devised, and novel theatre projects all rooted in topics around DEI.

CUR Geosciences Division Announces 2021 Awardees for Excellence in Student Research

The CUR Geosciences Division announced the 2021 awardees for excellence in student research: - Zoe Lacey (Trinity University) - Hanna Szydlowski (Grand Valley State University)

CUR Chemistry Division Selects 2021 Outstanding Mentorship Awardees

The CUR Chemistry Division has announced the 2021 recipients of its Outstanding Mentorship Award, which recognizes excellence in mentoring of undergraduate researchers: • Tarek Abdel-Fattah (Christopher Newport University) • Fadi Bou-Abdallah (SUNY Potsdam) • Loretta Jackson-Hayes (Rhodes College)​

2021 Posters on the Hill Spotlights Exemplary Undergraduate Research Projects for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Public

On April 27–28, undergraduate students from colleges and universities in 42 states and the District of Columbia will participate in the 2021 Posters on the Hill event, sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research. In a virtual public poster session on April 28 from 2–4 pm ET, undergraduate researchers and their mentors from institutions such as Edmonds College and Grinnell College to Norwich University and Penn State University will share their research projects.

Montana State’s Gregory Young Selected as the 2021 CUR-Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Awardee

Gregory Young, professor in the School of Music and founding director of the Undergraduate Scholars Program at Montana State University in Bozeman, has been selected as the 2021 CUR-Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Awardee. The award consists of a plaque and $1,000 for the recipient’s work with undergraduate researchers.