💡How can we help our undergraduates receive UREs (Undergraduate Research Experiences) across the U.S. and ensure they submit competitive applications? 🤔 Who is this for? Undergraduate Students and their mentors. 📋 What is it about? In this episode, we: 1. Explore the key differences and unique benefits of REUs, including hands-on mentorship from professors, the thrill of discovering the unknown, and the joy of applying classroom knowledge to real-world research. 2. Learn practical tips on enhancing your REU applications, understand eligibility criteria, and discover the importance of personalized applications. 3. Find out how REUs can pave your way to graduate school and provide a well-rounded research experience, including funded travel and housing. Don't miss this opportunity to explore different paths and hear real-life experiences from our panelists! Don't miss this opportunity to explore different paths and hear real-life experiences from our panelists! ⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps 00:00 Nine Ways to Succeed In Undergraduate Research 01:32 REUs v. Internships 03:39 Can Seniors Apply? 04:52 Previous experience required? 06:56 Time Commitment 07:59 Compensation and Benefits 09:08 Selecting Opportunities 11:26 Common Application Questions 13:22 A Competitive Application 17:09 The Strongest Applications 22:49 Final Thoughts and Encouragement 📣 Speakers 1. [Kylia Butler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylia-butler-02022826b/) | GMU Public Health Junior and Student Host 2. [Xia Parkes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xia-parkes-176252273/) | GMU Biology Junior and Student Host 3. [Brandon Speed](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-a-speed/) | Doctoral Candidate and President of GMU NOBCChE 4. [Marissa E. Yáñez, Ph.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marissayanez/) | Chief Diversity Officer, UC Berkeley College of Chemistry 5. [Ashley Wallace, Ph.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wallaceashley/) | Associate Director of Diversity and Student Engagement, University of Pennsylvania Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter 6. [Jennifer Poo, M.A.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-poo/) | Education, Outreach, and Diversity Manager, NSF Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI): Genetically Encoded Materials 7. [Mike Schwartz, Ph.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-schwartz-wisc/) | Managing Director, NSF Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI): Sustainable Nanotechnology 8. [Vanessa Rosa, Ph.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/) | Director of Broader Impacts, NSF Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI): The Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks 📄 Helpful Resources - 👩🏽‍💻 Show notes: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/ure - [NOBCChE](https://nobcche.org/) - [Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program (ASSIP)](https://science.gmu.edu/assip) - [Inaugural SURD fellows](https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/inaugural-surd-fellows-leading-minds-next-generation) - [Summer Undergraduate Research Diversity Program (SURD)](https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/dei/programs/surd) - [Summer Research Programs & Scholarships in STEM (Undergrad level)](https://www.pathwaystoscience.org/Undergrads.aspx) - [Search REU Sites](https://new.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/reu/search) - [Summer Research Early Identification Program](https://theleadershipalliance.org/summer-research-early-identification-program) - [Penn VPSE](https://vpse.upenn.edu/penn-pipeline-programs/undergraduate-programs/) - [Applying to Summer Undergraduate Research Programs](https://gem-net.net/applying-to-summer-research-programs/) - [Undergrad — NSF CCINSF CCI](https://www.nsfcci.org/undergrad) - [Raychelle - Burks](https://ccas.nd.edu/people/raychelle-burks/) - [Cuvette Collective](https://www.cuvettecollective.org/) - [CURIOUS Scientists](https://www.cuvettecollective.org/tag/podcast/) 🌎 Learn more about Cuvette Collective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZwDEh7ZpjA 🎙️ Who is the host? Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research. Professional Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/ Personal Content: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessalearns 🙌🏽 How can I help the podcast? Level 1: 🧪 If you found this content helpful, please subscribe! Level 2: 🧬 If you're already subscribed, leave a like or a comment. Level 3: ⭐️ If you’ve already done that (and are super incredible), you can: - Become a monthly Benefactor 🌎 of Cuvette Empowered LTD, an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing grants to scientists with limited resources: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/signup - Tip the Producers 💸 https://cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/support

How can we effectively communicate equity-centered research in STEM? ✨ Join a community dedicated to making an impact through science; click here: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/signup 🤔 Who is this for? This podcast episode is for anyone passionate about advancing equity in STEM education and research, including: - STEM educators and researchers looking to effectively communicate equity-centered findings - Science communicators seeking strategies to frame research narratives for diverse audiences - Policymakers and education administrators aiming to interpret and apply equity-centered research - Graduate students in STEM fields interested in developing inclusive communication skills early in their careers Whether you work in academia, research institutions, or science communication, Dr. Adri Corrales offers valuable insights on framing research that resonates with stakeholders and promotes equitable practices in STEM. 📋 What is it about? In this episode of CURIOUS Scientists, Dr. Adri Corrales joins the discussion to share their insights on the complexities of navigating power dynamics and effective framing in STEM education. The conversation covers adaptive strategies for different audiences and balances between innovative and empathetic communication styles: - Highlighting challenges in the peer review process, the necessity of clear and accessible presentation, and overcoming traditional academic publishing hurdles, the episode provides practical advice for academics aiming to make their research impactful and accessible. - Topics such as the hidden curriculum, visual aids, and engaging social media content emphasize a paradigm shift in academic communication to benefit educators and support educational reforms. ⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps & Resources 00:00 Opener 00:41 Intro 01:08 Storytime: Framing a Conference Talk 06:34 Questions to Ask When Framing Research 10:34 A Framework for Framing 11:48 Effective vs. Ineffective Framing 12:50 Applying the Framing Framework 16:23 A Critical Perspective on Framing 17:50 "Success" as a Researcher 21:01 Framing for Research vs Practice 22:08 Challenges in Academic Writing 27:04 What Academia could learn from Social Media 31:40 What we want to learn about framing 34:40 Should Empathy have no place in Research? 35:45 Outro 🎥 TEDx video by Dr. Nat Kendall-Taylor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wol2nGSpY 📄 Study defining interdependence: "the idea that everyone in the province has a stake in addressing addiction." https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AddictionValuesPaper.pdf?ref=cuvettecollective.org 👩🏽‍💻 Blog post: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/framing/ 🌎 Learn more about Cuvette Collective: https://youtube.com/shorts/aZwDEh7ZpjA?feature=share 🎙️ Who are the hosts? Dr. Adri Corrales: Dr. Corrales' background is in chemist education research with a focus on equity and inclusion in science education, as well as expertise in qualitative research methods and critical theory. Professional Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriana-corrales-6a3280124 Dr. Vanessa Rosa: Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research. Professional Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/ Personal Content: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessalearns 💃🏽 What can I do? - Use clear and accessible language to communicate research findings - Provide concrete examples and practical solutions for educators - Consider your intended audience when framing messages - Ensure your framing aligns with your values and beliefs 🙌🏽 How can I help? 1️⃣ If you found this content helpful, please leave a review on: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/curious-scientists/id1775750787 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/618jstj2wALPdp80LvWWUR?si=d13f27c5c2ba44a8 2️⃣ If you've already left a review, enjoy more content here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmeVF8iefWlvf_oJocj3kxIQTmyGNfHA7&si=Q7RMDc8DC2PbL7Gv 3️⃣ To support under-resourced scientists in making an impact, donate to our nonprofit: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/signup.

What COULD academic publishing BE if the incentives aligned with the desired outcome (science advancement)? ✨ Join a community dedicated to making an impact through science; click here: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/signup 🤔 Who is this for? This content would be most helpful to scholars and researchers who publish their work in academic journals and are frustrated with the barriers it imposes on impacting their field. 📋 What is it about? In the final installment of our trilogy on academic publishing, we discuss the future of academic publishing: 1. Where it's gone wrong, 2. How to address it, and 3. What scholars can do while we wait for these changes to become the norm. ⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps & Resources 00:00 - Intro 00:37 - The roots of toxic academic publishing 03:18 - Supplanting ethical publishing practices 05:34 - How will we pay for publishing reform? 11:11 - What can we do while reform becomes the norm? 📄 Demystifying academic publishing: A Researcher's guide to ethical journals: https://www.thecuvette.org/pub/zy5kna35 (⬅️ the infographic). 👩🏽‍💻 Blog post: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/rethinking-academic-publishing/ 🌎 Learn more about Cuvette Collective: https://youtube.com/shorts/aZwDEh7ZpjA?feature=share 🎙️ Who is the host? Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research. Professional Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/ Personal Content: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessalearns 💃🏽 What can I do? Support alternatives to traditional academic publishers that don't paywall the work, charge authors to publish, subsume their intellectual property rights, or obscure the selection and peer review processes. Here are some examples: Science Education Research: https://www.thecuvette.org Pre-Print Reviews: https://prereview.org Directory of Open Access Journals: https://doaj.org 🙌🏽 How can I help the podcast? If you found this content helpful, please subscribe! If you're already subscribed, leave a like or a comment.

Why do researchers publish their research? ✨ Join a community dedicated to making an impact through science; click here: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/signup 🤔 Who is this for? This content would be most helpful to those who write and research academic journals. 📋 What is it about? 1. The exploitative nature of academic publishing, 2. The role of prestige in perpetuating the system, and 3. The impacts on stakeholders and scientific progress. ⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps & Resources 00:00 - Intro 01:21 - Why Taxpayers Support Exploitative Publishing 02:31 - Government Resistance to Reform 03:49 - Why Researchers and Universities Perpetuate the System 06:39 - The Root of the Problem: Prestige and Perceived Quality 07:56 - Impacts on Stakeholders and Scientific Progress 09:52 - Hopes to Align Incentives with Science Advancement 📄 Demystifying academic publishing: A Researcher's guide to ethical journals: https://www.thecuvette.org/pub/zy5kna35 (⬅️ the infographic). 👩🏽‍💻 Blog post: www.cuvettecollective.org/academics-and-the-prestige-trap/ 🌎 Learn more about Cuvette Collective: https://youtube.com/shorts/aZwDEh7ZpjA?feature=share 🎙️ Who is the host? Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research. Professional Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/ Personal Content: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessalearns 💃🏽 What can I do? What do you think about the suggestions for resisting the academic publishing system from within and without academia? Comment and let us know! 🙌🏽 How can I help? If you found this content helpful, please subscribe! If you're already subscribed, leave a like or a comment.

How do publishers make money from scientists' research? ✨ Join a community dedicated to making an impact through science; click here: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/signup 🤔 Who is this for? This content would be most helpful to those who write and research academic journals. 📋 What is it about? 1. The extractive business model of traditional academic publishing, 2. The lack of compensation for authors and 3. The high cost of journal subscriptions. ⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps & Resources 00:00 - Intro 00:42 - Disclaimer 01:08 - Business Model Overview 02:16 - Example: Café 03:32 - Academic Publishing Model 04:30 - An Extractive Model 05:30 - Conclusion 👩🏽‍💻 Blog post: www.cuvettecollective.org/an-extractive-business/ 🌎 Learn more about Cuvette Collective: https://youtube.com/shorts/aZwDEh7ZpjA?feature=share 🎙️ Who is the host? Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research. Professional Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/ Personal Content: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessalearns 💃🏽 What can I do? Can you think of other business models that are as extractive and unsustainable as academic publishing? Why do we, as researchers, continue to use extortive publishers to disseminate our work? Comment and let us know! 🙌🏽 How can I help? If you found this content helpful, please subscribe! If you're already subscribed, leave a like or a comment.

How does who you are impact your research? ✨ Join a community dedicated to making an impact through science; click here: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/signup 🤔 Who is this for? This content would be most helpful to researchers seeking to understand how they impact their research and content on positionality or other reflexive practices. 📋 What is it about? 1. What positionality is, 2. The controversy surrounding positionality in research, and 3. How to write an effective positionality statement. ⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps & Resources 00:00 - Intro 00:22 - Storytime 03:47 - What is positionality? 07:29 - The positionality controversy 13:04 - Why a researcher's credibility is their positionality 16:05 - How to write a positionality statement (10 steps) 👩🏽‍💻 Blog post: www.cuvettecollective.org/positionality-is-credibility/ 🌎 Learn more about Cuvette Collective: https://youtube.com/shorts/aZwDEh7ZpjA?feature=share 🎙️ Who is the host? Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research. Professional Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/ Personal Content: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessalearns 💃🏽 What can I do? Take a moment to reflect on how who you are impacts your work as a researcher. Feel free to comment and share your reflection with us! 🙌🏽 How can I help? If you found this content helpful, please subscribe! If you're already subscribed, leave a like or a comment.

How can natural hierarchies inform the hierarchies we create? ✨ Join a community dedicated to making an impact through science; click here: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/signup 🤔 Who is this for? This content would be most helpful to scholars in the academic system (administrators, researchers, professors, and students) looking for helpful information on academic hierarchies and alternative models. 📋 What is it about? 1. How natural hierarchies like molecules and cells self-organize for optimal functioning. 2. How academic hierarchies concentrate power and can be oppressive. 3. Alternative academic models include democratic governance, cooperatives, peer networks, open access, and restorative justice. ⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps & Resources 00:00 - Intro 00:18 - Hierarchies in the natural world... 02:42 - Human-constructed hierarchies... 04:03 - Comparing natural and human-made hierarchical systems... 06:17 - This history of the academic hierarchy... 07:11 - Alternatives to academic hierarchies... 09:16 - Resisting the academic hierarchy from within... 11:34 - Conclusion 👩🏽‍💻 Blog post: www.cuvettecollective.org/hierarchies-from-molecules-to-academia/ 🌎 Learn more about Cuvette Collective: https://youtube.com/shorts/aZwDEh7ZpjA?feature=share 🎙️ Who is the host? Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research. Professional Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/ Personal Content: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessalearns 💃🏽 What can I do? Engage in discussions about academic hierarchies, take action within your role, and keep envisioning and building more egalitarian academic models. Comment to discuss! 🙌🏽 How can I help? If you found this content helpful, please subscribe! If you're already subscribed, leave a like or a comment.

What's the one thing about your career you would do over? ✨ Join a community dedicated to making an impact through science; click here: https://www.cuvettecollective.org/#/portal/signup 🤔 Who is this for? This content would be most helpful to early-career scholars looking to avoid a cardinal mistake I made in my academic progress. 📋 What is it about? 1. The benefits of establishing a personal website and email address for academics, 2. The challenges of frequent relocation in academia and 3. Developing a personal brand as an academic. ⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps & Resources 00:00 - Intro 00:05 - If I could go back, I would... 03:02 - Research suggests this do-over would be valuable... 03:49 - Three steps to doing this over... 05:04 - Why it's different today... 06:17 - How I would do it... step-by-step... 07:18 - Conclusion 🌎 Learn more about Cuvette Collective: https://youtube.com/shorts/aZwDEh7ZpjA?feature=share 👩🏽‍💻 Blog post: www.cuvettecollective.org/the-one-thing-i-would-change/ 🎙️ Who is the host? Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research. Professional Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/ Personal Content: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessalearns 💃🏽 What can I do? Get yourself a domain from your favorite provider, set up an email address you can take with you anywhere you work, and make your email signature “subscribe to my newsletter” so that the people who care and want to support you can do so. Comment to discuss! 🙌🏽 How can I help? If you found this content helpful, please subscribe! If you're already subscribed, leave a like or a comment.