Past, current, and future meetings will be posted here, along with their related video links and supporting documents (where relevant).
13 Mar 2026, 2pm-3:15pm ET: STEM DBER Alliance Seminar
Tati Russo-Tait, University of Georgia, Biology
Exploring the Micro-Level in Active Learning: Black Science Students’ Exclusionary and Affirming Interpersonal Experiences
Megan Wawro, Virginia Tech, Mathematics
Student reasoning about eigentheory in linear algebra and quantum mechanics
20 Feb 2026, 2pm-3:15pm ET: STEM DBER Alliance Seminar Launch
Hosted by University of Colorado Boulder
Welcome & STEM DBER Alliance Overview/Status (Watch Video)
Jon-Marc Rodriguez, UW-Milwaukee, (Watch Video)
DBER CURE as a lens to investigate undergraduate researcher experiences
Opportunities for undergraduates to engage in discipline-based education research (DBER) are often informal or limited. Guided by literature on course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE), we developed a structured course that embeds engagement in education research. For the current project, we use the DBER CURE as a setting to investigate undergraduate students’ experiences conducting education research. Using semi-structured interviews and other course artifacts, our qualitative analysis focuses on students' perceptions of CURE components: discovery, relevance, collaboration, iteration, and science practices. As part of this, the ongoing analysis emphasizes how student experiences in a DBER CURE fit within the backdrop of literature on undergraduate research experiences in benchtop contexts.