GEOL3200/3201: Introduction to Field Methods
Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: Students collect their own observations about local geology, integrate them with published observations / literature, and complete a substantial final project that includes multiple geological maps, a scientific paper, and other products.
BIOL3550: Vegetation Sampling and Analysis
Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: The course involves undergraduates in a long-term, large-scale experiment in plant community ecology. Students gain skills in plant identification, vegetation sampling methods, statistical analysis of large data sets, and scientific communication. Working in teams, students collect plant community data at a local field site, analyze […]
BIOL4420:Microbial Biotechnology
Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: This course focuses on the microbial role in environmental, agricultural, and industrial processes with emphasis on how microbes function and what we can do to control or enhance their capabilities. Topics covered include water treatment, biofuels, environmental remediation, food production, and pharmaceutical development. The associated lab will […]
ENVE4203:Groundwater Hydrology
Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: Water quality of well water in urban systems: Connections to human and environmental health. Impacts of hydrology on plant-soil-microbe interactions.
ENVE3103:Water Quality/ENVE 3203:Water and Wastewater Treatment
Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: The proposed two-semester CURE will enable teams of junior-level environmental engineering (EE) to apply learned concepts and actively participate in the research and engineering design processes to ultimately test the efficacy of designed treatment technologies for remediation of nonpoint source contaminants. Treatment technologies will be […]
BIOL3661: Marine Biology Lab
Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: The overarching goal of this CURE is to examine the distribution of microplastic pollution and its impacts on coastal organisms in estuaries with contrasting amounts of urbanization. We hypothesize that more urbanized estuaries will contain a higher concentration of microplastic debris in both the water […]
CHEM2753/63:Organic Chemistry I and II Lab
Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE: There are two sections of Organic II CUREs. Dr. Allen’s students will design and synthesize non-natural amino acids that change their fluorescence output in response to changes in acidity. Proteins containing the amino acids will be added to heart cells to determine how lowered blood pH damages […]
BIOL4800: Applications in Molecular Cell Biology
Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: This course provides upper-level Biology students an immersive research experience in which to gain practical skills in genetics and molecular cell biology.
CHEM2771: Biological Chemistry Lab
Link to ECU Course Catalog What this CURE is about: Students will build a library of protein variants that will be aimed at assessing the binding interaction between two human proteins, in which the interaction has been implicated in ferroptosis – a non-apoptotic form of programmed cell death. Students will pick an amino acid residue […]
BIOL4560: Microbial Ecology
Link to ECU Course Catalog What this CURE is about: Students in the interdisciplinary wetland CURE will study how hydrology and nutrient addition interact to influence plant-soil-microbial interactions. Students will examine how hydrology and nutrient enrichment directly and indirectly (via plant effects) affect wetland microbial structure-function relationships. Learn more about this CURE here: WetlandEcoEx