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The Council on Undergraduate Research has featured Reed's NSF Award for
the Integration of Research and Education (AIRE) grant in a new booklet called "Reinvigorating
the Undergraduate Experience." Edited by two researchers from Carnegie
Mellon University, the booklet describes activities and outcomes at twenty
of the institutions that received support from this program, such as Duke University
and Occidental College.
Peter Russell, Jon Rivenburg, Carol Creedon, Gena Anderson '99, and Natalie
Yager '03 authored the Reed article, "Peer Mentors in Faculty/Student
Research Projects and in the Classroom." This article, and the complete
booklet, can be read
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Reed's commitment to providing undergraduates an experience rooted
in the process of discovery was recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
by making Reed one of the ten
recipients of the national Award for the Integration of Research and Education
(AIRE). Reed College will use this award for three initiatives in the Departments
of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Psychology:
1. Undergraduate Research Mentor Program
2. Science at Reed Reviews
3. Outreach Activities
The goal of integrating research and education is to teach students to understand
and apply the scientific method — to develop hypotheses, design and carry out
experiments, and evaluate scientific arguments |
