Council on Undergraduate Research Employee Directory
Higher EducationMaryland, United States11-50 Employees
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) is a nonprofit organization in the higher education sector, based at 267 Kentlands Boulevard #4021, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878, United States, and it employs 11 to 50 people. It collaborates with affiliated colleges, universities, and individuals to provide undergraduate research opportunities for faculty and students at institutions serving undergraduates. CUR supports faculty development and its leadership engages agencies and foundations to expand research opportunities, with publications and outreach that share models and strategies for establishing undergraduate research programs. The organization assists administrators and faculty in improving and assessing the research environment at their institutions and disseminates information on the importance of undergraduate research to state legislatures, private foundations, government agencies, and the U.S. Congress. CUR's governance is organized in a divisional structure spanning disciplines including arts and humanities, biology, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, health sciences, mathematics and computer science, physics and astronomy, psychology, social sciences, an at-large division, and a division for directors of undergraduate research programs.