CURE Examples
Discipline
Core Competencies
- Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering) 6 matches
- Developing and using models 3 matches
- Planning and carrying out investigations 7 matches
- Analyzing and interpreting data 10 matches
- Using mathematics and computational thinking 4 matches
- Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering) 5 matches
Nature of Research
Results 21 - 24 of 24 matches
Aurora Connect: CItizen Science connecting students and community
Rhonda Hattar, Community College of Aurora
Core Competencies: Analyzing and interpreting data
State: Colorado
Target Audience: Introductory, Major, Non-major
CURE Duration: A full term
From coffee to fuel, in lab
Abbey Fischer, University of Wisconsin Baraboo/Sauk County
Overall, the purpose of this project is to develop a teaching laboratory aimed at first- and second-year students. The final laboratory exercise will have students convert spent coffee grounds to biodiesel and bioethanol. In the first iteration of this CURE (Spring 2019), students will focus on finding reliable and safe methods for extracting fermentable sugars from the coffee grounds and proving that sugars were extracted.
POP-CURE Project TRAIT: Investigating Apple Physiology in the Power of Place CURE
Maggie Richards, Front Range Community College
Students will investigate apple trees that have survived in remnants of old orchards in the local community. Research projects will focus on comparing physiology and growth of different cultivars exposed to environmental stress, such as drought, in common garden experiments.
BERT 2 (Beaver Ecosystem Research Team)
Chris North, University of Wyoming
The Beaver Ecosystem Research Team (BERT) series of CURE courses will introduce student to ecological literature and research methods within the context of beaver pond ecosystems. Beavers are the archetypal ecosystem engineer and strongly influence their environment, affecting other organisms and natural processes. The pond complexes created by beavers are centers of biodiversity in mountainous areas, and lend themselves to numerous study questions. They are also easily accessed from our campus in Laramie. Our overarching research goals are to understand the role of landscape context (i.e. are ponds surrounded by sagebrush steppe, aspen groves, or lodgepole forest, for example) on beaver pond biodiversity, and how does matter and energy flow between ponds and the surrounding landscape (often termed "terrestrial-aquatic linkages"). Within the context of these broader research goals, students will develop and carryout research projects in groups.