The History of the Malate Dehydrogenase CUREs Community
The MDH CUREs community is an inclusive and sustainable community consisting of a national network of faculty, organized into 3 regional hubs. Member institutions include community colleges, MSI, PUI, comprehensive and research-intensive institutions. The MDH CUREs Community develops protein-centric Course Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) centered on Malate dehydrogenase. Our goal is to dramatically increase the number of students, from a broad range of backgrounds, who experience the benefits of CUREs in their undergraduate education. To acheive this we have two overarching goals: 1) to continue to support faculty developing and teaching MCC CUREs, and 2) to Conduct Pedagogical Research on MCC CUREs to allow continued refinement of CURE Pedagogy. The first goal is also supported by the new MCC RCN-UBE Web page (https://www.mdhcures.org/).
For additional details of both Research Projects and OUR Pedagogy projects visit the Bell Lab Web Page to Join our Community or collaborate with Bell lab Research Projects or contact Ellis Bell, (jbell@sandiego.edu)
Read our latest paper in PLOS ONE
Read our recent paper from CBE LSE on the impact of Collaboration
Read our CourseSource Article on Hypothesis Development
Read Our CourseSource Paper on Organizing Student Collaborations
Read Our BAMBEd Paper on Teaching Virtual Protein-Centric CUREs and UREs Using Computational Tools
Read Our Paper : Using research to teach an "introduction to biological thinking" from BAMBEd
Read the Nature Reviews Paper : “The future of education in the molecular life sciences”
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