Join the CCAS Department of Physics for an event featuring Heather Lewandowski, professor and associate chair of engineering physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Participation in undergraduate research experiences (UREs) has been identified as an important way of increasing undergraduate retention, interest and identity within the sciences. Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been shown to have similar outcomes to UREs, but can reach a larger number of students at one time and are accessible to any student simply through enrollment in a course. One key component of a CURE is that students must participate in authentic scientific discovery in which they answer a question where the answer is initially unknown to both students and the scientific community.

This talk will present student experiences with authentic research in the first large-enrollment, introductory physics CURE conducted remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.