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Undergraduate Research and Higher Education of the Future uarterlyCOUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Summer 2017 Issue | Volume 37, Number 4 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND HIGHER EDUCATION OF THE FUTURE Also in this issue: Some Pathologies of Undergraduate Research — and How to Cure Them www.cur.org The Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly is published uarterly in the Fall, Winter, Spring, and COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Summer by the Council on Summer 2017 Volume 37, Number 4 Undergraduate Research. Editor-in-Chief Engineering The mission of the Council on James T. LaPlant, College of Arts and Sciences Binod Tiwari, Civil and Environmental Undergraduate Research is to support Valdosta State University Engineering Department and promote high-quality undergraduate [email protected] California State University, Fullerton student-faculty collaborative research and [email protected] Issue Editors scholarship. Janice DeCosmo, Associate Dean Geosciences The Council on Undergraduate Research Undergraduate Academic Affairs Laura A. Guertin, Department of Earth Science Quarterly publishes scholarly work that exam- University of Washington Penn State-Brandywine ines effective practices and novel approaches, [email protected] [email protected] explores pedagogical models, and highlights Laurie Gould, Department of Criminal Justice and Health Sciences the results of assessment of undergraduate Criminology Niharika Nath, Life Sciences Department research. As a peer-reviewed publication of Georgia Southern University New York Institute of Technology- the Council on Undergraduate Research, the [email protected] Old Westbury purpose of the journal is to provide useful [email protected] and inspiring information that increases our Feature Editors understanding of undergraduate student-fac- Book Review Mathematics and Computer Sciences ulty engagement in research, scholarship, and Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez, Department of English Kathryn Leonard, Department of Mathematics creative work in all disciplines and at all types Bradley University California State University Channel Islands of higher education institutions in the United [email protected] [email protected] States and abroad. International Desk Physics and Astronomy Rachel Spronken Smith Sorinel Oprisan, Department of Physics and CUR Advertising Policy Graduate Research School Astronomy University of Otago College of Charleston The Council on Undergraduate Research [email protected] [email protected] accepts advertising from organizations and individuals if such ads are in line with our Helen Walkington Psychology tax-exempt educational purpose, which is Department of Social Sciences Scott Bates, Department of Psychology to promote undergraduate research and Oxford Brookes University Utah State University [email protected] education. We retain the right to refuse any [email protected] advertising that we feel does not fall within Undergraduate Research Highlights Social Sciences our guidelines. Marie Graf Ishuan Li, Department of Economics School of Nursing Minnesota State University Mankato For more information, contact the National Georgia Southern University [email protected] [email protected] Office at [email protected] or 202-783-4810. Undergraduate Research Program Divisional Editors Directors Subscriptions Arts and Humanities Sumana Datta, Department of Biology For CUR members, the CUR Quarterly is Texas A&M University M. Soledad Caballero, Department of English delivered as a benefit of membership. For Allegheny College [email protected] other individuals, the annual subscription rate [email protected] Technical Editor is $42. For libraries, the subscription rate is $87 annually. At-Large Elizabeth Foxwell Council on Undergraduate Research Lisa Gates, Associate Dean for Fellowships To order a subscription, visit: www.cur.org/publications.html. and Research Publisher Middlebury College CUR National Office ISSN 1072-5830 [email protected] Council on Undergraduate Research Biology 734 15th Street NW, Suite 850 Council on Undergraduate Research Lonnie Guralnick, Department of Mathematics & Washington, DC 20005-1013 734 15th Street NW, Suite 850 Natural Sciences Phone: 202-783-4810 Washington, DC, 20005-1013 Roger Williams University Fax: 202-783-4811 [email protected] www.cur.org About the cover: A winner from Radford Chemistry Design University’s 2015 Shark Tank Competition Rebecca Jones, Department of Chemistry Design and Prepress Production shows a prototype of a prosthetic hand Slice Works George Mason University created via a 3D printer. [email protected] Gaithersburg, MD www.slice-works.com Education Kymberly Harris, Department of Teaching and Learning Production and Mailing Georgia Southern University The Sheridan Press [email protected] Hanover, PA www.sheridan.com uarterly COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONTENTS Summer 2017 Focus: Undergraduate Research and Higher Education of the Future Focus Articles Award-Winning Mentors See Democratization as the Future of Undergraduate Research ..............................4 – Jenny Olin Shanahan, Helen Walkington, Elizabeth Ackley, Eric E. Hall, and Kearsley A. Stewart Curating Exhibitions as Undergraduate Research ...................................................................................12 – Alexa Sand, Becky Thoms, Erin Davis, Darcy Pumphrey, and Joyce Kinkead Design Thinking as Research Pedagogy for Undergraduates: Project-Based Learning with Impact ................18 – Linda Chamberlain and Susan Mendoza Leveraging the Maker Movement for Undergraduate Research: Developing a Making and Innovation Culture .............................................................................................................................23 – Jeanne Mekolichick and Joseph Wirgau Utilizing Undergraduate Research to Enhance Integrative Learning ..........................................................28 – Karen Mumford, Stephen Hill, and Laurel Kieffer From the International Desk Some Pathologies of Undergraduate Research—and How to Cure Them ...................................................33 – Ronald Barnett A Response to “Some Pathologies of Undergraduate Research—and How to Cure Them” ..........................39 – Julio Rivera Departments From CUR’s Executive Officer – Elizabeth Ambos ........................................................................................2 From the CURQ Issue Editor – Janice DeCosmo ...........................................................................................3 Vignettes ...........................................................................................................................................41 Undergraduate Research in Support of Community Decision-Making – David P. Burns and Anya Goldin Anyone Can Play: Forming Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research around Video Games – Seth Hudson and Doug Eyman Ensuring the Safety and Success of Dual-Enrolled Students Involved in Undergraduate Research through a University-High School Partnership – Tricia L. Meredith and Donna Chamely-Wiik Interdisciplinary Approach to Undergraduate Research in Education: Collaborating on the Development of a Practitioner’s Textbook – Stacia C. Miller, Christina J. McIntyre, and Suzanne F. Lindt A Primarily Undergraduate Institution and a Research Hospital Collaborate on a Research Initiative in Central Pennsylvania – Nathan Ryan Book Review: The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research: Success in and Beyond College .............44 – Erin M. Hayes www.cur.org 1 SUMMER 2017 • Volume 37, Number 4 From CUR’s Executive Officer s we eagerly anticipate the tran- untouched by UR are attending community colleges, so pro- sition of CUR Quarterly to Schol- grams that support more UR in that environment need to A arship and Practice of Undergrad- proliferate (Candice Foley and Nina Leonhardt). We can tie uate Research (SPUR), this last issue of UR more effectively to entrepreneurship and/or the “maker” CUR Quarterly heralds that launch with movement (Jeanne Mekolichick and Joseph Wirgau), thus articles that thoughtfully tackle the fu- shortening the time between discovery and marketplace, and ture. Not the future of the burgeoning generating more direct economic benefits and job creation. international undergraduate research Lastly, we can accelerate the trend for interdisciplinary, mul- movement, but the future of higher ed- tifaceted, project-based UR, breaking open disciplinary silos ucation itself. In other words, “ask not and unleashing the full potential of UR to solve complex what higher education can do for undergraduate research, problems and generate interdisciplinary communities (Karen but what undergraduate research can do for higher educa- Mumford, Stephen Hill, and Laurel Kieffer; Alexa Sand and tion.” For, as editors James LaPlant and Janice DeCosmo stat- coauthors). The concept linking all of these excellent exam- ed in the call for papers, “undergraduate research has moved ples is that UR provides a public good as well as individual from an elective activity that engaged a handful of faculty benefits. members and students to a central part of the undergraduate CUR Quarterly has been an important avenue for UR thought experience at many colleges and universities.” leadership since (almost) the organization’s inception. In In 1978, the chemists who started CUR shared the firm belief 1994, Donald Scott, coeditor of CUR Quarterly, looked back at that undergraduates were fully prepared to pursue research the first 14 years (Scott 1994). His
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