Brochures
- 2007-2008 Student Goverment brochure (.pdf)
- OUR brochure (.pdf)
IRB Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE):
Graduate Mentor Manual:
- Entering Mentoring: A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists by Jo Handlesman, Christine Pfund, Sarah Miller Lauffer, Christine Maidl Pribbenow. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (2005).
Educational Resources:
- Basics of Poster Design (Washington Space Grant Consortium)
- Creating Posters for Humanities and Social Sciences (Eastern Oregon University)
National Undergraduate Research Organizations:
- Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)
The mission of the Council on Undergraduate Research is to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship. CUR and its affiliated colleges, universities, and individuals share a focus on providing undergraduate research opportunities for faculty and students at predominantly undergraduate institutions. CUR believes that faculty members enhance their teaching and contribution to society by remaining active in research and by involving undergraduates in research. CUR’s leadership works with agencies and foundations to enhance research opportunities for faculty and students and provides support for faculty development. CUR sponsors an excellent biannual conference on undergraduate research and education, publishes a journal (CUR Quarterly), books, and an informative “How-To” series. Individual memberships are quite reasonable and may be of interest both to faculty and to graduate students and post-docs with interests in careers in academia. - The Reinvention Center
The mission of the Reinvention Center is to sustain the focus on undergraduate education inspired by the Boyer Commission Report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998).
The Center also aspires to be an active and informed voice for promoting change. It carries out its activities through regional meetings, conferences, and special projects. All conference proceedings and informative “Spotlight” articles about innovative programs are freely available from the Center’s website.
Publications
The Director, Associate Director and the graduate assistants have published articles about establishing an office of undergraduate research, the role of mentoring in graduate education, introducing student inquiry in large introductory classes, organizing symposia for state legislators, and introducing research experiences in courses by collaborating with Graduate Research Consultants. These articles can be viewed or downloaded. We are grateful to the Council on Undergraduate Research, who holds the copyright for several of these articles, to allow us to provide web access to them. The mission of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) is to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship. CUR and its affiliated colleges, universities, and individuals share a focus on providing undergraduate research opportunities for faculty and students at predominantly undergraduate institutions. CUR believes that faculty members enhance their teaching and contribution to society by remaining active in research and by involving undergraduates in research. CUR’s leadership works with agencies and foundations to enhance research opportunities for faculty and students and provides support for faculty development.
- How to engage in collaborative curriculum design to foster undergraduate inquiry and research in all disciplines by Patricia J. Pukkila, Janice DeCosmo, Danielle C. Swick, and Martha S. Arnold In "How to Design, Implement and Sustain a Research-Supportive Undergraduate Curriculum", ed. K. Karukstis and T. Elgren, Council on Undergraduate Research, pp. 147-163 (2007).
- Introducing Student Inquiry in Large Introductory Genetics Classes by Patricia J. Pukkila. Genetics 166:11-18 (2004).
- Bringing Instructional Innovations that Work in One Discipline to Other Disciplines: The Graduate Research Consultant Program by Patricia J. Pukkila and Martha S. Arnold with Danielle Glickman. Integrating Research into Undergraduate Education: The Value Added, Conference Proceedings (2004).
- Incorporating Graduate Student Participation by Patricia J. Pukkila with Ben Holt, Devon Fisher, Reed Wilson and David Martinez. Undergraduate Research and Scholarship and the Mission of the Research University, Conference Proceedings (2002).
- PostDocs Learn to Manage Others by Patricia J. Pukkila and Sharon Milgram. American Society for Cell Biology Newsletter 24: 21-23 (2001).
- Research in the State Capital: Helping Your State Legislators Understand and Appreciate Higher Education by Patricia J. Pukkila and Katherine M. Whatley. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly 23: 81-83 (2001).
- Why Establish an Office of Undergraduate Research? by Patricia J. Pukkila, Douglas E. Taylor, and Bernadette Gray-Little. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 21: 177-179 (2001).
