The Need to Be Sure About CUREs: Discovery and Relevance as Critical Elements of CUREs for Nonmajors

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education 1 Volume 19, Number 3 ©2018 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work. Received: 15 August 2018, Accepted: 14 September 2018, Published: 31 October 2018. To the Editor,

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