CUR to Honor Champion of Undergraduate Research - The Honorable Chaka Fattah

Newswise — Washington, DC- Every day, across the nation, undergraduate students and faculty advisors engage in research that profoundly affects their educational and professional aspirations. On April 24, the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) will honor the research achievements of 60 undergraduate students from colleges and universities nationwide at the 17th annual Posters on the Hill event on Capitol Hill. At this annual event, students, selected from a pool of over seven hundred applicants, share their undergraduate research with Members of Congress, congressional staff, federal government officials, academics and others. At this year’s event, CUR is privileged to bestow upon the Honorable Chaka Fattah (D-PA-02) the 2013 Honorary CUR Fellowship award. This award is presented annually to leaders working to promote undergraduate research and the mission of CUR.

“Given the unique contribution undergraduate research makes to support innovation and the research enterprise at large, it is an honor for me to be named a Honorary CUR Fellow. I look forward to continuing to support undergraduate research at colleges and universities across the nation in order to deepen young people’s educational experiences during their undergraduate careers and foster future innovators in this great nation,” stated Representative Chaka Fattah.

CUR’s annual Posters on the Hill event is an important opportunity for lawmakers to see how federal programs and dollars make a real difference for students and faculty and nurture interest in research and postsecondary study. The reception, being co-hosted by the American Chemical Society, will take place in B338-B340 in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill from 5:00 through 7:30pm on April 24.

##Council on Undergraduate Research: The Council on Undergraduate Research (www.cur.org) supports faculty development for high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship. Over 650 institutions and 8500 individuals belong to CUR. CUR believes that the best way to capture student interest and create enthusiasm for a discipline is through research in close collaboration with faculty members.

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