Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) provide significant benefits to
students compared to prescriptive (“cookbook”) laboratory curricula. However, carrying out …

Institutional administrators in higher education struggle with student attrition and work to
develop programs and support mechanisms to boost retention (Derby & Smith, 2004; Jacobs …

Course-based undergraduate research experiences, or CUREs, are increasingly common
because they engage undergraduates in research at schools that are lacking a research …

This study has developed a digital mathematics handbook that helps students to strengthen
their mathematical skills at the elementary level of education. A survey of mathematics …

There are nine named species of buckeye butterflies (genus Junonia H übner) in the W
estern H emisphere. There is considerable geographic variation within Junonia species, and …

Student engagement and retention is a noted concern for universities and may be impacted
by many different student factors such as difficulty transitioning to a university setting …

The lesser aspen webworm moth, Meroptera pravella, is a small pyralid that uses quaking
aspen (Populus tremuloides) and related tree species as larval hosts. Whole-genome …

Undergraduate research is one of several high impact educational practices used by
educational institutions to increase student engagement and success (Kuh, 2008). Many …

The brown pansy, Junonia stygia (Aurivillius, 1894)(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), is a
widespread West African forest butterfly. Genome skimming by Illumina sequencing allowed …

In this laboratory experiment, real-time polymerase chain reaction (real-time PCR) was
conducted using published human TPOX single-locus DNA primers for validation and …