Table 1.

Introductory Biology and Cell Biology CUREs Organization

	Introductory biology CURE	Cell biology CURE	Course design	Scholarly activities	Assessment
Introduction	+	+	Development of laboratory skills and knowledge on scientific literature for instructor designed research project of known outcome	Becoming familiar with scientific literature search, imaging, documentation of experimental work, interpretation of data	Peer-review of alcohol results
					Lab report (data and conclusions)
Instructor designed research	+	+	Instructor designed research projects of unknown outcome to generate new knowledge	Article search on research topics, documentation of experimental work, result presentation, data interpretation, comparing results with peer groups, scientific writing	Lab report (data and conclusions)
Student designed research	+	±	Discovery research projects to test student generated hypotheses using student designed experiments	Scientific literature search, research proposal writing, documentation of experimental work, result interpretation, poster presentation	Five-page lab report written in scientific paper format
					Poster presentation rubric
					Pre- and post-CURE assessment

Introductory biology CURE was divided into three parts, and cell biology CURE was divided into two parts, which were integrated into the traditional cell biology laboratory.

+, Everything in the course design, scholarly activities, and assessment was covered.

±, Discovery research was discussed but not executed.

CUREs, course-based undergraduate research experiences.