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Recycle Your Life: Investigating best practices for improving recycling
Michael Black, Georgia State University
This CURE is designed to introduce STEM-thinking and research tools to students with an interest in furthering environmental goals. As the entryway for most starting students is recycling, this CURE is aimed at helping students understand some of the disconnect between understanding recycling (why it is important and what can be recycled) and behaving in a way that matches that understanding (recycling appropriately).

Discipline: Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Sustainability
Core Competencies: Analyzing and interpreting data, Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering), Planning and carrying out investigations
State: Georgia
Target Audience: Non-major, Introductory
CURE Duration: A full term

Bioenergy Materials for Renewable Energy: A Theoretical and Experimental Approach
Jalaal Hayes, Delaware State University
This course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) will focus on the topic of biomass energy.

Discipline: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Chemistry:Physical Chemistry, Environmental Science:Energy
Core Competencies: Analyzing and interpreting data
CURE Duration: Half a term