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As part of the PI's outreach, a course-based undergraduate research experience engaged undergraduate women in research from examining the literature to identify a gap, formulating a research hypothesis, designing experiments to test the hypothesis, analyzing the data, writing and submitting an abstract and presenting the research to the scientific community. This project was as follows: Recently, reports of the success of phototherapy for use in wound healing, acne treatment, and other dermatological applications have increased.​ A large number of studies use laser light in the evaluations, while relatively few use LED light. This is significant since LED light has recently been marketed to consumers of phototherapy for improving skin tone. While it has been demonstrated that keratinocyte viability and migration is negatively impacted by blue LED light and positively impacted by red LED light,​ the effects of using such over the counter devices have been scarce. In this study, we evaluated the effect on keratinocytes of one 10 minute dose of red, blue, or UV light delivered from one such over the counter LED device.