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Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Report of a Convocation PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR CONVOCATION ON INTEGRATING DISCOVERY-BASED RESEARCH INTO THE UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM Chair SARAH C.R. ELGIN, Victor Hamburger Professor of Arts and Sciences; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Washington University in St. Louis Members GITA BANGERA, RISE Learning Institute, Bellevue College SEAN M. DECATUR, Kenyon College ERIN DOLAN, Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin LAURA A. GUERTIN, Brandywine Campus, Pennsylvania State University WENDY C. NEWSTETTER, College of Engineering & Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology ELVYRA S. SAN JUAN, California State University System MARY A. SMITH, Department of Biology, North Carolina A&T State University GABRIELA C. WEAVER, University of Massachusetts, Amherst SUSAN R. WESSLER, University of California, Riverside Staff JAY LABOV, Study Director, Board on Life Sciences/Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education KERRY BRENNER, Program Officer, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Science Education ANGELA KOLESNIKOVA, Administrative Assistant, Board on Life Sciences Consultant STEVE OLSON, Writer v Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Report of a Convocation BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES Chair JAMES P. COLLINS, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University Members ROGER D. CONE, Vanderbilt University Medical Center JOSEPH R. ECKER, Salk Institute for Biological Studies SARAH C. R. ELGIN, Washington University in St. Louis STEPHEN FRIEND, Sage Bionetworks ELIZABETH HEITMAN, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center RICHARD A. JOHNSON, Global Helix LLC JUDITH KIMBLE, University of Wisconsin, Madison MARY E. MAXON, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory KAREN E. NELSON, The J. Craig Venter Institute MARY E. POWER, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley MARGARET RILEY, Massachusetts Academy of Sciences; Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst LANA SKIRBOLL, Academic and Scientific Affairs, Sanofi JANIS WEEKS, Department of Biology, University of Oregon Staff FRANCES SHARPLES, Director LIDA ANESTIDOU, Senior Program Officer KATIE BOWMAN, Senior Program Officer JO HUSBANDS, Senior Scholar JAY LABOV, Senior Scholar KEEGAN SAWYER, Program Officer MARILEE SHELTON-DAVENPORT, Senior Program Officer AUDREY THEVENON, Associate Program Officer BETHELHEM MEKASHA, Financial Associate VANESSA LESTER, Research Associate ANGELA KOLESNIKOVA, Administrative Assistant JENNA OGILVIE, Senior Program Assistant KANOKO MAEDA, Senior Program Assistant vi Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Report of a Convocation BOARD ON SCIENCE EDUCATION Chair ADAM GAMORAN, William T. Grant Foundation Members GEORGE BOGGS, Palomar College, (emeritus) MELANIE COOPER, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University RODOLFO DIRZO, Department of Biology, Stanford University JACQUELYNNE ECCLES, School of Education, University of California, Irvine JOSEPH FRANCISCO, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln MARGARET A. HONEY, New York Hall of Science MATTHEW KREHBIEL, Kansas State Department of Education MICHAEL LACH, Urban Education Institute, University of Chicago LYNN LIBEN, Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University CATHY MANDUCA, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College JOHN MATHER, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center BRIAN REISER, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University MARSHALL “MIKE” SMITH, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ROBERTA TANNER, Retired Physics Teacher, Thompson School District, Loveland, CO SUZANNE WILSON, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Connecticut YU XIE, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan Staff HEIDI SCHWEINGRUBER, Director MARGARET HILTON, Senior Program Officer KERRY BRENNER, Program Officer KENNE DIBNER, Program Officer MATTHEW LAMMERS, Program Coordinator MIRIAM SCHEIBER, Program Assistant vii Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Report of a Convocation Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Report of a Convocation Preface Most currently working scientists remember fondly their first “summers in the lab” as a high school or undergraduate student—those first opportunities to really “be a scientist,” to be part of a research group raising questions and seeking