Episode summary introduction: Jeanne Mekolichick, President of Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), Associate Provost and Professor of Sociology at Radford University, and Lindsay Currie, Executive Officer for CUR.

Jeanne and Lindsay talk about Why UG Research is transformative, the role CUR plays in nurturing and expanding UG Research, the services it provides to College and Students and How to prepare to do research in college.

In particular, we discuss the following with them:

• Jeanne & Lindsay’s Professional Background
• What is CUR?
• The Transformative Nature of UG Research
• How CUR helps Colleges & Students

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Introducing Jeanne & Lindsay, CUR [0:40]
• Backgrounds [2:47]
• Why UG Research? [7:04]
• What is CUR? [10:25]
• Why Universities are Members? [12:26]
• How well is CUR working? [14:26]
• Jeanne’s take on CUR [16:50]
• Students & CUR  [19:34]
• Community Colleges Participation [22:20]
• Success Stories [24:01]
• Measure of Success [28:08]
• What’s Next for CUR? [32:00]
• Advice for High Schoolers [36:27]
• Selecting Colleges for Research [39:58]

Our Guests:

• Jeanne Mekolichick is the President of  The Council on Undergraduate Research. Jeanne is Associate Provost and Professor of Sociology at Radford University.
• Lindsay Currie is the Executive Officer for the Council on Undergraduate Research.

Memorable Quote: “And they are just open calls for an hour where anybody in our community can reach out to us and say they have this problem or concept that they want to get others in, in the undergraduate research community to come and tackle with them and talk about their experiences.” Lindsay Currie about CUR.

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