After 20 years teaching statistics, research methods, and capstone courses, he abandoned his program of research in his specialty to focus primarily on advancing his undergraduates’ research contributions. In recent years, he devoted his scholarship time to developing projects where students could both learn the craft of research methods while simultaneously contributing to science more broadly. He introduced “authentic research projects” where the goal of the project is to share findings beyond the classroom. He has guided projects that are locally derived course based research questions in coordination with colleagues across campus (Ward, Johnson, Griswald, & Grahe, 2017) and across the world (Nelson, Grahe, & Ramseyer, 2016) as well as projects that are crowdsourced across many locations where students are invited to collect a local sample and share their data with a larger groups.