NOAA awards $11.6 million for harmful algal bloom research

NOAA awards $11.6 million for harmful algal bloom research Projects will help enhance monitoring and determine socioeconomic impacts of blooms NOAA is announcing funding of 17 new research projects around the country to better understand and predict harmful algal blooms (HABs) and improve our nation’s collective response to them. NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean […]

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URI Research Community Meeting, October 1, 2020

The Office of Sponsored Projects and Office of Research Integrity hosted a Research Community Meeting on October 1, 2020. Topics included: updates on new staff, procedures, centralized email address, updates on NSF biosketches, sponsor and cost accounting updates, research integrity updates, and progress with InfoEd implementation and COVID-19 updates. See below for the full agenda.   […]

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URI Chemistry Professor Jason Dwyer Wins Innovation Award

URI chemistry professor wins innovation award for ‘game-changing’ work on single-molecule sensing   Media Contact: Tony LaRoche, 401-874-4894 | Share: Twitter Facebook   KINGSTON, R.I. – Dec. 12, 2019 – Every little kid who dreams of growing up to be a chemist envisions working with test tubes to discover a breakthrough that changes science. Jason Dwyer, associate professor of chemistry at […]

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Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease

URI, BayCare in Florida and Butler Hospital team up to test retinal scanning for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease Media Contact: Dave Lavallee, 401-874-5862 | Share: Twitter Facebook KINGSTON, R.I. — Jan. 6, 2020 — The University of Rhode Island, in collaboration with BayCare Health System in Florida and The Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital, an affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of […]

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URI students develop acoustic device to detect whales near offshore wind farm

A group of six ocean engineering students at the University of Rhode Island has developed an acoustic device that successfully detects the sounds made by whales and other marine mammals in the vicinity of the Block Island Wind Farm. The invention was created for the students’ senior capstone design class, a yearlong project that requires […]

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URI students depart April 18 for six-day oceanographic research expedition

Students and scientists will embark on a six-day expedition aboard the University of Rhode Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) Research Vessel (R/V) Endeavor to conduct oceanographic research focused on whale, zooplankton and environmental interactions that occur in the coastal and offshore waters of Southeastern New England. Learning more about these interactions is essential to management […]

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