Check out the newsletter on the Council on Undergraduate Research’s website! In this issue: Summer 2018 SPUR Published on UR Role in Fostering Diversity and Achieving Equity Congratulations to Newest ACS Fellows: CUR Members Gauthier and Karukstis New Publications Highlight Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) Eos Article Looks at Database’s Role in Widening Participation of Undergrad Researchers NSF Seeks Feedback […]
New freshmen Honors Apprentices are in need of supervisors this fall! Apprentices spend five hours a week with a faculty or staff mentor on research or creative activities that involve internship-level work (not work-study, general office duties, or homework hours). The goal of the apprenticeship is to have the student work with a mentor who can provide valuable, collaborative experiences […]
Dr. Thomas Hanson and recent graduate Peter Olson (Dec. 2017; finance major) had a paper titled “Financial Literacy and Family Communication Patterns” accepted for publication in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. The research was conducted as part of the Honors Apprentice program at MSUM and was presented at the Student Academic Conference. The abstract is available at this […]
The Lab Crawl is over, so it’s time to claim your prizes! There’s still time to turn in your Lab Crawl stamp collection booklets for a chance to win prizes including gift cards to Target and Dairy Queen, T-shirts, and more! Drop off your stamp collection booklets to the Library by Friday, April 20.
Elaine Pyle (Speech Language Hearing Sciences) presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in New York City on April 14, 2018. The paper session focused on Instructional and Technological Scaffolding in Enhancing Students’ Problem-Based Learning Experiences. She also presented her research—The Effects of Subject Presentation Type on Student Motivation: A PBL Implementation in […]