CURE Examples
Discipline
Core Competencies
- Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering) 8 matches
- Developing and using models 3 matches
- Planning and carrying out investigations 6 matches
- Analyzing and interpreting data 9 matches
- Using mathematics and computational thinking 6 matches
- Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering) 2 matches
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BIOL 189T Fungal Biology
Alija Mujic, California State University-Fresno
The diversity, community structure, and functional diversity of fungi in the high Sierra is understudied and is largely unknown from the Sierra Nevada foothills. Through use of direct field sampling I will engage BIOL189T students in sampling efforts to elucidate the fungal biology of these understudied habitats. Students will sample fungal sporocarps (mushrooms) from existing field plots established by the National Environmental Observation Network (NEON) and use morphological identification techniques and DNA barcoding methods to identify the fungal diversity in these habitats. Future iterations of the course will likely focus upon selected fungal taxa identified in previous iterations of the course to investigate the phenology and ecological interactions of the fungal community in these habitats in NEON plots.
Core Competencies: Planning and carrying out investigations, Analyzing and interpreting data, Developing and using models, Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
Nature of Research: Basic Research, Field Research, Wet Lab/Bench Research
State: California
Target Audience: Upper Division, Major
CURE Duration: A full term
Designing Authentic Undergraduate Experiences in Research (DAUER)
Joseph Ross, California State University-Fresno
In this research experience, students will learn about how inheritance of diverse genetic material from their parents can impact the health (fecundity) of offspring. Students will design experiments to mate pairs of populations from a diverse global collection of microscopic worms and measure and compare the fecundities of their hybrid offspring.
Core Competencies: Using mathematics and computational thinking, Planning and carrying out investigations, Analyzing and interpreting data, Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
Nature of Research: Basic Research, Wet Lab/Bench Research
State: California
Target Audience: Upper Division, Major
CURE Duration: A full term
Redesign of BIOL 1A Lab
Tricia Van Laar, California State University-Fresno
Core Competencies: Planning and carrying out investigations, Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering), Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering), Analyzing and interpreting data
State: California
Target Audience: Major, Introductory
CURE Duration: Half a term
Using R to Build Powerful Predictive Models for Kaggle Competitions
Earvin Balderama, California State University-Fresno
Core Competencies: Using mathematics and computational thinking, Analyzing and interpreting data, Developing and using models
Nature of Research: Informatics/Computational Research, Applied Research
State: California
Target Audience: Non-major, Major, Upper Division
CURE Duration: A full term
Introduction to Mathematical Proofs - Journey into the unknown
Tamas Forgacs, California State University-Fresno
This CURE processes traditional elements of a proofs course through student research initiated by problems posed in various mathematics journals aimed at the general mathematics community. Students are tasked with solving these problems, and generalize their answers in suitable ways.
State: California
Target Audience: Major
CURE Duration: A full term
Yeast, metabolism and suicide: a brewing introduction to biochemical research
Laurent Dejean, California State University-Fresno
This course provides the student with a range of techniques and methodology appropriate to the study or phenomena at the biochemical, cellular, and organismic levels. In the spirit of genuine undergraduate research (CURE), the students will be involved directly in research that is ongoing in the Dejean's lab, i.e. the study of the mechanisms used by Bcl-2 family proteins to cross-regulate cell death and energy metabolism. The students' involvement in this type of research will be following a set of preliminary experiments which are aimed at familiarizing the students with common biochemistry lab skills; and with the manipulation of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae which is to be used as the main model system in their research. Finally, the students will also engage directly with primary literature sources in preparation of their lab reports and an eventual presentation of their research at the Fresno State CURE symposium at the end of the semester.
Core Competencies: Analyzing and interpreting data, Developing and using models, Planning and carrying out investigations
Nature of Research: Basic Research, Wet Lab/Bench Research
State: California
Target Audience: Major, Upper Division
Fruit Flies as a Model of Human Neurodegenerative Disease
Joy Goto, California State University-Fresno
Upper-division biochemistry and chemistry majors will learn and iteratively apply the techniques of protein purification, DNA and protein gels, Western blot, DNA isolation, transformation, enzyme characterization to research the utility of fruit fly (D. melanogaster) to model the human neurodegenerative disease (e.g. ALS - Lou Gehrig's, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease).
Nature of Research: Wet Lab/Bench Research, Applied Research
State: California
Target Audience: Major
Brain Mapping of Psychiatric Disorders
Chris Miller, California State University-Fresno
This course will introduce students to the neuroscience of psychiatric disorders by guiding them through the process of conducting a meta-analysis of fMRI studies of a particular psychiatric disorder of their choice.
Core Competencies: Analyzing and interpreting data, Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering), Using mathematics and computational thinking
Nature of Research: Informatics/Computational Research
State: California
Target Audience: Major
CURE Duration: A full term, Multiple terms
Polymer/Materials Structure-Property Relationship Investigations for General Chemistry Students
Zuleikha Kurji, Saint Marys College of California
Core Competencies: Analyzing and interpreting data, Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering), Planning and carrying out investigations, Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
Nature of Research: Wet Lab/Bench Research, Applied Research
State: California
Target Audience: Introductory, Non-major, Major
CURE Duration: A few class periods, Half a term
Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Lab: Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of New Therapeutics in Pain Management
Stevan Pecic, California State University-Fullerton
This course will introduce students to the medicinal chemistry research experience. In this project, students will focus on in silico and structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies of small molecules designed to increase the levels of anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive endocannabinoids by inhibiting the enzyme Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH) responsible for their metabolism and degradation. Endocannabinoids, anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), are endogenous lipids that bind to and activate cannabinoid receptors. Activation of these receptors produces anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. FAAH is a membrane enzyme that hydrolases endocannabinoids, thus inhibition of FAAH represents an attractive approach to develop new therapeutics for treating inflammation and pain.
State: California
Target Audience: Major
CURE Duration: A full term