Members of the Joint Working Group on Improving Underrepresented Minorities (URMs)
Persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)—convened by …

Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are being championed as
scalable ways of involving undergraduates in science research. Studies of CUREs have …

The Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences Network (CUREnet) was initiated
in 2012 with funding from the National Science Foundation program for Research …

National efforts to transform undergraduate biology education call for research experiences
to be an integral component of learning for all students. Course-based undergraduate …

A 2012 report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
predicts that the US workforce will suffer a deficit of one million college graduates in science …

African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans are historically underrepresented
minorities (URMs) among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) …

Economic projections point to a need for approximately 1 million more STEM professionals
than the US will produce at the current rate over the next decade if the country is to retain its …

While emphasis is often placed on assessing students' conceptual knowledge, less has
been placed on investigating affective aspects of student biology learning. In this paper, we …

This longitudinal study examined academic self‐efficacy and performance among
Science/Technology/Engineering/Math (STEM) majors who are underrepresented in STEM …

New data highlight the importance of undergraduate research experiences (UREs) for
keeping underrepresented science students on the pathway to a scientific career. We used a …