Educational Programming

Venkat Raman, host of the College Matters Alma Matters podcast, has created a step-by-step workbook for first-year students. Getting Started with Undergraduate Research introduces students to the importance of undergraduate research. At this free webinar, hear from Venkat and others share their passion for getting first-year students engaged with undergraduate research and how this workbook might work at your institution.

Hosted by the CUR Undergraduate Research Program Division, these 50-minute Zoom sessions are monthly facilitated exchanges of ideas and information on a variety of topics and issues related to undergraduate research programs.

Join the National Office staff to discuss how leveraging personal and CUR social media channels can help you in advocating for undergraduate research and celebrating successes. Learn tricks to make your social media journey more successful while also understanding items that the National Office has on hand to help!

This webinar will delve into the numerous benefits to social science mentors who participate in the undergraduate research experience. We will discuss how undergraduate research can positively impact a mentor’s career advancement opportunities, contributions to the next generation of researchers, and impact on student learning experience.

Participants will reflect on a changing landscape, discuss current challenges, share innovative approaches, and brainstorm resilient solutions that transcend the need for traditional DEI terminology. With a focus on adaptability and creativity, attendees will develop strategies that ensure their work remains impactful, regardless of external pressures.

At this free webinar, the authors of A Long View of Undergraduate Research: Alumni Perspectives on Inquiry, Belonging, and Vocation will discuss findings from research on undergraduate research alumni from across the disciplines. These alumni reveal how undergraduate research is intellectually and personally significant during college and vocationally significant after college, and they suggest ways in which mentors, research programs, and institutions can sustain more meaningful, equitable research experiences.

Preservice and in-service teacher thinking risks being outsourced to ‘reasoning’ models of AI (e.g. Open AI 3.0 mini and Deep Seek). Simultaneously, the same risk is true for the thinking of the school students they teach. This webinar provides ways to manage this risk through conceptualization and practice about facilitating rich research thinking, using examples from the open-access Springer book ‘Research Thinking for Responsive Teaching’.

Hosted by the CUR Undergraduate Research Program Division, these 50-minute Zoom sessions are monthly facilitated exchanges of ideas and information on a variety of topics and issues related to undergraduate research programs.

A team at Oregon State University designed, implemented, and studied an alternative inclusive undergraduate research experience model aimed at lowering barriers to access for underrepresented and non-traditional students.  The program, Authentic Research through Collaborative Learning has just released a web-based guide to share insights and lessons learned from this long duration, low intensity and field independent research experience. Attend this free webinar to engage with the authors Julie Risisen and Ryan Brown.

At this free webinar for CUR Members, Carol Street from the University of Kentucky, will demystify the process of incorporating archival resources in the classroom; Learn how using archival resources can achieve high-impact results for undergraduates; Learn about the Learning Lab at the University of Kentucky, which achieves student success through a primary source-based internship in the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center. Open to all but ideal for faculty/mentors in the humanities, social sciences, STEM faculty, and librarians.