CUREs

Ethical Lab Notebook Management in STEM Programs

Rachel Horak facilitated the JMBE Live! session on “Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in CUREs.” Presented on October 28, 2022, Caitlin Light and Sonia Hills at Binghamton University. Sonia Hills was an undergraduate. Binghamtopn University’s First-year Research Immersion Program is a University-wide STEM program enrolling 300 first-year students. The three semester […]
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SREs like BAG

Mary Ann Smith presented at ASMCUE 2022 a microbrew session entitled “Too long for a CURE: Building a Semester of Short-term Research Experiences (SREs) for Microbiology.” Smith is at Penn State Schuylkill and has earned two MAs and an MBA. They used slido.com for polls during their session, starting with “Have you incorporated a CURE […]
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Promoting Belonging Across a Department

The ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session I watched tonight was entitled “Measures Taken to Increase Belonging and Retention in a First Semester Majors Biology Course.” Sean Timothy Coleman was the presenter and used a Padlet to share information. Coleman is at a small institution in Iowa. They launched workshops on diversity and inclusion and brought in […]
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Scientific Practices in CUREs

Alaina J. Buchanan and Ginger R. Fisher are at the University of Northern Colorado and presented at ASMCUE 2022 a recorded session on the “Current Status of Science Practices in CUREs.” They mentioned that CUREs were described in 2014 by Auchincloss et al. and “born out of need for more workers in science, technology, engineering, […]
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