STEM university education has room for improvement.

In collaboration with educators from across the United States, Research On STEM Education (ROSE) is helping to make these improvements in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) through evidence-based teaching through educational research.

Learn more about who we are by navigating the tabs above. Want to be part of the solution?
Connect with us through the contact page.

EVENTS

​Join us November 18th, 2020 at
​
12:00 pm​(CST) 

for a talk with Dr. Erin Dolan

​Undergraduate Research at Scale: What if the treatment is a CURE?
 
National calls to improve undergraduate STEM education have emphasized the importance of undergraduate research experiences. Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences, or CUREs, involve groups of students in addressing research problems or questions in the context of a class, and have been proposed as scalable ways of involving undergraduates in research. This seminar will offer a definition of CUREs, describe what makes them distinctive from other learning experiences, and highlight results from the Freshman Research Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin as a unique and highly impactful CURE model.
 
Erin Dolan is a Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education at the University of Georgia. As a graduate student in Neuroscience at University of California at San Francisco, she volunteered extensively in K-12 schools, which prompted her to pursue a career in biology education. She teaches introductory biology and biochemistry. Her research group studies science research environments as contexts for undergraduate and graduate students’ psychological and social development within the scientific community. She just finished a decade of service as Editor-in-Chief of the biology education journal, CBE – Life Sciences Education (https://www.lifescied.org/

The ROSE network is funded by the following sponsors:

UAB STEM Initiative

The materials on this website are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. RCN-UBE-1826988.