CURE-Purdue
CURE-Purdue trains instructors to incorporate authentic, novel research into existing or new courses to create course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs). CUREs enable single instructors to involve large numbers of students in the excitement of cutting-edge research projects, providing them with necessary research-skill development and more fully engaging them in coursework.
2021 CURE-Purdue Interest
If you are interested in participating in the 2021 CURE-Purdue instructor professional development program, please complete this interest form: Qualtrics form. Applications from teams are welcome.
CURE Success across Disciplines
Business | Computer Science | Political Science | Economics | Computational Social Science | English and Comparative Literature | HHMI Programs
CURE Resources
Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) - CUR provides support and professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, administrators, and students for establishing, nurturing, and institutionalizing undergraduate research programs.
CUREnet - CUREnet was established in 2012 to support networking among faculty developing, teaching, and assessing CUREs, to share CURE projects and resources, and to develop new tools and strategies for CURE instruction and assessment.
FLAMENet - Focuses on cultivating the next generation of resilient, risk-taking STEM innovators.
Squirrel-Net - Inquiry-based lesson plans take students out of the classroom and engage them in research on locally relevant and widely distributed mammals. In the process, students collect data with standardized protocols and submit their data to a national database. Students can test their own hypotheses with data they collected, as well as the combined, larger dataset. Preliminary assessments suggest that being part of a larger, nation-wide project provides a sense of community and accountability among the students. You can join our network and have your students add to our growing database here!
CURE-Purdue Participant Feedback
100% of workshop participants...
- feel more prepared to design and teach a CURE after the workshop.
- were satisfied with the workshop.
What they said:
"There is something to be said about the ad hoc nature of typical research experiences, but I am expecting that this more formal class-like setting scales better, given that our students bring such a wide range of motivations..."
"... the defining useful A+ feature for me was the built-in time to actually work. I wouldn't have done it without that, but it'll make for a much better course."
"Although undergraduate research is considered an important and essential component of many programs, there are too many students at most R1 universities to provide these experiences in the traditional research lab format."
"This workshop was very useful in introducing faculty to CURE courses, providing a framework for structuring our own CURE classes, and developing a cohort of fellow faculty with whom we can consult as we develop and work to improve these new courses."