The Council on Undergraduate Research
Bentley University has recently become a member of The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). The Council on Undergraduate Research is an organization of members from around the world who have a shared focus of providing high-quality and collaborative undergraduate research, scholarly, and creative activity opportunities for faculty and students. This is a source for undergraduate research open to ALL Bentley undergraduate students.
CUR's mission is "to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship".
CUR has five strategic pillars to help plan and visualize the future of undergraduate research. These pillars are important to the mission of CUR and are the following:
- Integrating and Building Undergraduate Research into Curriculum and Coursework: Focusing on building curriculum that is both research-based and supports undergraduate research as an outcome of curriculum.
- Assessment of the Impact of Undergraduate Research: Examines the outcomes of undergraduate research on students, faculty, curriculum, and institutions.
- Diversity and Inclusion in Undergraduate Research: Offers undergraduate research to a wider audience of undergraduates, faculty, and institutions to increase the diversity of participants, particularly from underrepresented groups and institutions.
- Innovation and Collaboration in Undergraduate Research: Expanding undergraduate research opportunities beyond academic institutions to research collaborations with business and nonprofit organizations as well as between higher education institutions.
- Internationalization and Undergraduate Research: Expanding the opportunities for research exchanges, research collaboration, and field research in international settings.
For more information, please contact Ryan Bouldin (NAS), Christian Rubio (Honors Program), or Johannes (Hans) Eijmberts (Valente Center for Arts & Sciences).
The CUR website can be found here.