Teach a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) using digitized natural history collections data to test hypotheses on sexually dimorphic wing melanization patterns of Pieris rapae butterflies. This inclusive CURE can be implemented in in-person, online, and hybrid formats, synchronously or asynchronously, and requires only student access to a computer and the internet.

For the Fall 2022 BIOME Working Group, we have developed a plug-and-play CURE model that will allow educators to pick and choose CURE resources, centered on microbial diversity and ecology, to allow students to learn the process of science, specific methods, and science communication. Students will be able to publish original data to the OneHealth Initiative and other databases. The resources will be further developed in a Spring 2023 FMN, to expand the model of a plug-and-play CURE.