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Laura Hoopes
Department of Biology
Pomona College
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Mary Allen
Department of Chemistry
Wellesley College
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Become a Councilor
CUR Councilors are elected to 3-year terms and
are expected to attend the yearly business meetings held in June where they participate in
helping shape the future of CUR and undergraduate research. Each Councilor serves on a
committee where much of the work of CUR gets
done. Feel free to contact the current CUR Biology Councilors directly with
questions. If you are interested in becoming a Councilor please contact Karen Lee.
Biology
Representatives on CUR Committees and Task Forces
Constitution & Bylaws
Committee: Chuck Stinemetz
Consulting Committee: Paula Dehn, Jonathan King, Vicki Cameron,
and Mark Brodl
CUR Fellows Committee: Suzanne Porszasz-Reisz
Finance Committee: Jeff Demarest, Gary Reiness
Government and External Relations Committee: Ami Ahern - Rindell,
Rebecca Bullard-Dillard, Vicki Martin
Meetings Committee: Sibdas Ghosh, Larry Wimmers, Evelyn
Hiatt
Membership Committee: Larry Aaronson, Dave Howard
Nominations Committee: Karen Lee
Outreach Committee: Rachelle Spell
Publications Committee: Paula Kleintjes, Glena
Temple, Louise Temple, Quinn Vega
Quarterly Editor: Quinn Vega
The Biology Division of CUR serves to support
research with undergraduates in a variety of ways:
Grant Preview Service
Experienced Division members (volunteers) will read rough drafts or nearly complete research
proposals and can provide valuable feedback prior to final submission. For more
information please contact the grant preview coordinator Kelly McConnaughay.
CUR Biology
Consultants Program
The Division has for many years conducted reviews of Biology Departments at Primarily
Undergraduate Institutions. For more information please contact the Biology
consultants coordinator Vicki
Cameron.
National Conference Activities
The Division runs a number of workshops and roundtable discussions of specific interest to
Biology faculty at each National Conference. Visit /conferences.html
for more information about upcoming meetings.
CUR Speakers Bureau
Of the 40 speakers on the CUR Speaker's Bureau, 9 of them are from the
Biology Division. They are:
Mary
Allen
Barbara Byrne
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Habits of Mind: On Being a Scientist
(student-oriented)
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The Obstacle Course To Research (faculty-oriented)
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Talking Research
Funding with your Dean or Provost (faculty-oriented)
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The Evolution of an
Academic Career (faculty-oriented focusing on changing roles and
responsibilities over time)
Jim Hoerter
Jeffrey
Osborn
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Pollen: More Than Something to Sneeze At
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Getting Started in Undergraduate Research:
Advice for New Faculty and Administrators
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The Undergraduate
Research Program at Truman State University
Gary Reiness
Jorge Santiago-Blay
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New insights into primitive hexapodan
evolution, arthropod paleodiversity, biogeography, and evolution
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Plant exudates or the gooey stuff that
plants ooze: history, uses, and chemistry
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The wonderful world of plants
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The flora and community ecology of two
Jurassic lithographic limestone formations in North America
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The wonders of amber
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Coevolution or the adaptationist paradigm?
The case of the antennal pockets in Rhopalotria mollis weevils
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New insights into the process of
speciation
Michael Tannenbaum
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How to Develop Undergraduate Research
Programs in Biology
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Of Mice but Not Men: Daily Torpor and Other
Overwintering Strategies in Small Rodents
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Effects of Fungal Endophyte Consumption on Small
Mammal Function
John Tudor
Quinn Vega
Click
here to go the complete CUR Speaker's Bureau
list.
CUR Posters
on the Hill
The Biology Division also participates in Posters on Capitol Hill
CUR Directories
There
have been three editions of the Directory of Research in Biology at
Primarily Undergraduate Institutions:
1989 - Mary Allen and Laura Hoopes, Editors
1994 - Leo Pezzementi, Editor
1997 - W. Wallace Martin, Editor
CUR is moving toward electronic retrieval of all this
information. Order your copy at the web site here.
CUR-L ListServ
CUR
members have direct access to each other and use it frequently.
Here you can participate in debates about various aspects of
undergraduate research, ask and answer questions about how others deal
with certain problems, or do anything else you want it to do for you.
Directions for subscribing can be found here.
How
To booklets
“How
To Get Started in Research” , now in its second edition, written by
Bert Holmes and Thomas Goodwin
"How
to Develop and Administer Institutional Undergraduate Research
Programs", 1999, by Toufic Hakim
"How
to Get a Tenure-Track Position at a Predominately Undergraduate
Institution", 2000, by Patricia Videtich, Michelle Bushey and
Deborah Lycan.
"How
to Mentor Undergraduates" will be available in the summer of 2002
Visit
/publications.html
to order you publications online.
CUR
PR Efforts
One
of the most important behind-the-scenes activities of CUR is working on
science policy and government relations issues with congress and
the US federal agencies. Previous efforts by CUR were critical in
realizing NSF's RUI program and NIH's AREA program. CUR continues
to work with legislators to help them understand the importance of
research in undergraduate education. The April Dialog and the Posters on
the Hill activities are directly targeted to doing this (see above).
In addition, our Presidents and NEOs have provided testimony to Congress
about issues in undergraduate science education.
CUR
Institutes
CUR
currently runs the following institutes —
Biologists
have been prominently involved in the planning and organization of these three Institutes. To learn more click
here.
Research Links 2000 Program
Research Link 2000 is a
project of The Council on Undergraduate Research to bring together biology faculty from
colleges and universities to select, develop and disseminate a group of field-tested,
experimental systems and instructional materials to support the introduction of
research-based experiments in introductory biology courses. It promotes research activities
by students and faculty on all levels of the undergraduate curriculum.
Research Link 2000 consists
of two major components:
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LabCore: a collection of field-tested descriptions of research systems or model organisms. Each unit in the collection describes a model
organism or model system, research techniques, and suggested research-based lab
experiments that can be easily incorporated into a general biology laboratory.
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LabLink: a web site that connects faculty and undergraduate
students, permitting them to share data, discuss results, and explore and discover
connections in related laboratory experiments. LabLink provides linkages to related web
sites to provide background information and applications that relate the lab experiments
to the world. The web site provides references, techniques, and sources for securing stock
cultures assistance in setting up a LabCore and implementing research-based labs.
The following major activities
have been completed:
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The Research Link 2000
conference—to select the research systems (Fall, 1997)
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The Research Link 2000
conference—to perfect the research systems (Summer, 1998)
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Research Link 2000 Institute—to disseminate the
research systems (Summer, 1999)
Future
activities include further development of resources on the LabLink website, and
a series of workshops to share development of the research systems for student use. For further information, please go to the
Research Link 2000 website.
In
addition to the activities outlined above, the Division is always open to new ideas and
encourages input from members. The National Conference is a wonderful forum for
faculty involved in research with undergraduates to discuss common problems and help to
develop innovative solutions. For more information please contact the Division Chair,
Amelia Ahern-Rindell.
History of the Biology
Division The Biology Division began
in 1984, six years after the founding of CUR by a group of chemists.
The Councilors who have served as Division Chair are as follows:
Peter Russell 1984-1989
Mary Allen 1989-1992
W. Wallace Martin 1992-1995
Conrad Firling 1995-1996
Lisa Baird 1996-1997
Kathryn Goddard 1997-1999
Jonathan Monroe 1999-2001
Jeffrey Osborn 2001-2003
Kelly McConnaughay 2003 - 2005
Paula Dehn 2005 - 2007
Amelia Ahern-Rindell 2007 - Present
Laura Hoopes was the first CUR President
from the Biology Division, serving from 1991-1992. Mary Allen has
also served as President, her term was 1994-1995. Since
1984 there have been 61 Biology Division Councilors of CUR.
Appearing in alphabetical order, they are:
Lawrence Aaronson, Utica
College of Syracuse University
Ami Ahern-Rindell, University of Portland
Mary Allen, Wellesley College
Lisa Baird, University of San Diego
Juliette Bell, Fayetteville State University
Carla Bossard, Saint Mary's College of California
Daniel Bowen, Benedictine College
Mark Brodl, Trinity University
Thomas Bultman, Hope College
Louis Burnett, College of Charleston
Barbara Byrne, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Vicki Cameron, Ithaca College
Mary Crowe, Coastal Carolina University
Yolanda Cruz, Oberlin College
Paula Dehn, Canisius College
Jeffrey Demarest, Juniata College
Judith Dilts, William Jewell College
Mary Farwell, East Carolina University
Conrad Firling, University of Minnesota - Duluth
Donald Frohlich, University of Saint Thomas
Sibdas Ghosh, Dominican University of California
Sandra Gilchrist, New College of Florida
Douglas Glazier, Juniata College
Kathryn Goddard-Doms, Ursinus College
Robert Hamilton, Mississippi College
Maxine Highsmith, Shaw University
Jim Hoerter, Ferris State University
Laura Hoopes, Pomona College
Jeffrey Hughes, Hanover College
C. Weldon Jones, Bethel College
Valerie Kish, University of Richmond
Paula Kleintjes, University of
Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Douglas Kline, Kent State University
Karen Koster, University of South Dakota
Kipp Kruse, Eastern Illinois University
Mary Lee Ledbetter, College of the Holy Cross
Karen Lee, University of Pittsburg, Johnstown Campus
Philip Leitner,
Stephen Loomis, Connecticut College
Anthony Madu, Virginia Union University
Jill Manske, University of St. Thomas
Vicki Martin, Appalachian State
University
W.Wallace Martin, Randolph - Macon College
Kelly McConnaughay, Bradley University
Ann McNeal, Hampshire College
Andrew Methven, Eastern Illinois University
Jonathan Monroe, James Madison University
Gisele Muller-Parker, Western Washington University
Marcia O'Connell, The College of New Jersey
John Olsen, Rhodes College
Jeffrey Osborn, Truman State University
Frank Pascoe, University of St. Francis
Michael Palladino, Monmouth University
Joe Pelliccia, Bates College
Leo Pezzementi, Birmingham-Southern College
Beverly Pierson, University of Puget Sound
Martin Ramirez, Loyola Marymount University
Gary Reiness, Lewis & Clark College
Peter Russell, Reed College
Janet Serie, Macalester College
Marlene Shaw, University of Southern Indiana
Chuck Stinemetz, Rhodes College
Brad Stith, University of Colorado at Denver
Michael Tannenbaum, Marist College
John Tudor, Saint Joseph's University
Julio Turrens, University of South Alabama
Quinn Vega, Montclair State University
Marcus Webster, Saint John's University
Joanne Willey, Hofstra University
Larry Wimmers, Towson University
Daniel Wubah, James Madison University
For more historical information about CUR,
overall, visit the Historical
Snapshot of CUR webpage.
Member's Only Website Please
be sure to visit the Biology Division page on the Member's Only section of
the web. You will find career information, job postings, funding
resources, and more. Click
here to go!
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