Participant Checklist

Before the Institute:

• If you are coming from out of town, be sure you have made travel and lodging arrangements. These will not be provided by the Institute.
• You will need a laptop or tablet that can connect to wifi during the Institute and that can open doc files and access the web via a browser. If you do not have access to a laptop, please contact Erin Dolan at eldolan@uga.edu.
• Sign up for an account on the SERC server. We will be utilizing a private workspace during the institute and you will need an account to access it.
• Go to http://serc.carleton.edu/account and complete the few fields there to set up an account.
• Be sure to use the same email address that you used to apply and to register. That is the email address that the system is expecting for you.
• Once you have set up your account, you can test that it is working correctly by trying to access the workspace at https://serc.carleton.edu/curenet/institutes/misc/workspace/index.html. If you have problems getting access to the workspace, please email John McDaris and he can help you.

If you haven't settled on a specific research project, please bring two or three options that you have explored. If you need help finding or selecting a project, you could explore project options through:

• CUREnet, which has mostly life science projects
• Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative, which has mostly life science projects
• Freshman Research Initiatives:
• University of Texas Austin, which has a range of STEM CUREs
• University of Maryland College Park, which has CUREs in the natural and social sciences and humanities
• Binghamton University , which has CUREs in natural and social sciences and engineering
• Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program, which has mostly engineering projects with some interdisciplinary projects involving natural and social sciences
• Your favorite education journal

You could also contact people in your field to see if you can get involved in their research – this can be your graduate or postdoctoral advisor, a colleague, or a researcher at an institution near you that is doing interesting research. See Table 3 of this paper from Hatfull and colleagues, which outlines seven attributes of research projects that are thought to make them logistically feasible as CUREs.