BIOL3221:Microbiology Lab
Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: Bacterial growth rates, carbon metabolism, and nutrient acquisition will be assayed in isolates and in soil microbial community samples. Each microbial isolate will be identified to the species level using Sanger sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. We will measure isolate-level traits such as growth […]
GEOL4010/4011: Sedimentology
Link to ECU Course Catalog What this CURE is about: Students collect data on field trips to two modern sedimentary depositional environments. Additionally, samples collected on those trips are processed in the lab. Data is integrated with published observations / literature to produce a journal-style article, including student-produced maps/diagrams.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]