News — The winter 2020 issue of (SPUR), the academic journal of the Council on Undergraduate Research, focuses on unusual approaches to undergraduate research. Said SPUR Editor-in-Chief (Valdosta State University):
We are excited about the winter 2020 SPUR issue, which highlights the ever-expanding landscape of undergraduate research initiatives. These include:
- through a Japanese food and culture focus (by Zhen, Culinary Institute of America),
- (by Sperano et al., MacEwan University)
- involving underserved rural students in course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs, by Allen et al., Concord University/Virginia Tech), and
- integrating distance education psychology students into undergraduate research (by Levin and Grewe, Utah State University).
The vignettes from the running theme on “Undergraduate Research during Times of Disruption” also reveal the impressive innovations underway with undergraduate research during the pandemic, including the revamping of a nanomaterials experiment (by Barstis, Saint Mary's College) and transitioning a computational research lab to a virtual environment (by Briganti and Brown, Virginia Tech).
Other topics of interest range from organizing and airing a student podcast on sports (by Johannesen, University of Minnesota Crookston) to (by McConnell Parsons et al, University of Kentucky).
View the for the winter 2020 SPUR, or visit the . Questions or comments about the issue may be addressed to SPUR Editor-in-Chief James T. LaPlant or SPUR Technical Editor Elizabeth Foxwell.
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