One of the many reasons why I love being part of our UC Davis First Year Seminar CUREs is that we do not require our students to have previous scientific experience. What this also means is that we need to spend a lot of class time covering basic (yet very important!) laboratory skills. Therefore, Week …
CUREs, Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences, represent a departure from traditional lecture-based teaching methods. In CUREs, students learn in a much more interactive environment. There is a growing body of literature suggesting CUREs benefit students – and therefore schools – far better than lecture-based teaching (Example 1, Example 2, Example 3). Members and collaborators of Jonathan …