GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP

Select a division that matches your area of expertise/study. Selecting a division is one of the first steps in customizing your CUR membership and enabling you to stay connected to other scholars in your field. CUR has 12 divisions including At-Large and Undergraduate Research Program Directors, and all division members vote for councilors. Council elects an Executive Board, who in turn chooses an Executive Officer to manage the national office. Exercise your CUR voting rights and sign up for a division today. On the CUR website hover over the Membership tab, then “Update Membership,” and select “Individual Profile Update.”

Access CUR’s open source bibliographies. Your CUR membership grants you access to CUR’s Bibliographies on Assessment and Integrating Research into the Curriculum. If you are looking for more information on the transformative value of undergraduate research or are interested on learning how to engage students in the process, check out our bibliographies today. Sign in to your CUR account and visit the members-only resource page at http://www.cur.org/members. Links can be found under the Open Source Bibliographies header.

CUR Mentor Network. CUR’s Mentor Network matches individuals seeking information about starting, sustaining, or re-initiating undergraduate research programs to experienced, tenured CUR faculty. Those requesting mentors may be newly hired faculty as well as graduate students and post-doctoral scholars. Established faculty who are interested in starting or restarting a research program or moving in a new direction, may also request a mentor. Mentors are provide a wealth of information on what successful undergraduate research projects look like, advice on selecting appropriate funding agencies, and review of preliminary grant proposals. To see the current available disciplines please log in to your account on the CUR website, hover over the Projects and Services tab, and select “Mentor Network.”

FREE webinar registrations. Your institution is allowed up to ten (10) free registrations per CUR webinar. Webinars are announced in the CUR Enewsletter, @CURinAction on Twitter, and on the CUR events calendar online so be sure to check frequently for upcoming webinars that spark your interest!

CUR Quarterly subscription. As part of your institution’s enhanced membership, individual members receive a free electronic subscription to CUR Quarterly, CUR’s scholarly journal that highlights useful and inspiring information about student-faculty collaborative research. To view current and back issues of the journal online, log in to your account on the CUR website, hover over the Publications tab, and select “CURQuarterly.”

Maximum discounts on CUR conference and institute registrations. Through your institution’s enhanced membership, you are eligible for the steepest discount on registration to all CUR conferences and institutes including CUR Dialogues, the Biennial CUR Conference, the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), and CUR Institutes. To learn more about CUR conferences please log in to your account on the CUR website and use the Conferences and Events tab to explore.

Washington Partners Enewsletter. Stay up to date on upcoming events in Washington that are relevant to CUR’s interests by signing up to receive the Washington Partners Enewsletter, This Week in Washington.

Make your voice heard by volunteering to participate in CUR’s Speakers Bureau. The Bureau provides an opportunity for institutions to host speakers who can talk firsthand about the high-caliber research in several disciplines being conducted at primarily undergraduate research programs. CUR speakers can share insights and excitement with a broad audience, and they provide CUR with yet another way of strengthening science, science education, and other academic disciplines at primarily undergraduate colleges and universities. To learn more or sign up today, log in to your account on the CUR website, hover over the Projects and Services tab, and select Speakers Bureau.