Undergraduate Research in the Sciences: Engaging Students in Real Science

Sandra Laursen is a codirector and research associate for Ethnography & Evaluation Research (E&ER), part of the?Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Anne-Barrie Hunter is lead analyst and project organizer for the undergraduate research (UR) study.?An?E&ER member since 1991, she played a major role in evaluations for the College Board, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Project Kaleidoscope, and was recently the evaluator for several institutional UR programs. She is a member of the Council of Undergraduate Research Advisory Board on Assessment.

Elaine Seymour directed E&ER for 17 years. She coauthored a pioneering study, Talking About Leaving: Why undergraduates leave the sciences (1997), that helped to shape the national movement to reform undergraduate science education.

Heather Thiry has a PhD in education and has been the analyst of the comparative data sample for the UR study team.

Ginger Melton is a sociologist who was both analyst and consultant on minority issues for E&ER's qualitative study of the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) UR program for minority students at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.