Summer 2025 Program
RI-INBRE has received a $1.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. This three-year Community Projects grant will allow RI-INBRE to continue the Workforce Development & Training (WDT) Pilot Program funded for 2 years through the RI Department of Labor.
Summer 2024 Program
The second year of the WDT program saw an expansion of the program to 14 modules: 3D Science Visualization, Application of Biochromatography, Basic Laboratory Skills, Introduction to Biological Data Science, Cell Culture (CCRI), DNA Manipulation, Effective Science Communication, Fluorescence Microscopy, Introduction to Enzyme-Drug Assays, Modern Approaches for Detecting and Separating Small Molecules, Nanosensors, Patient Simulation, Principle of Drug Delivery Formulations, and Worm Model Neurobiology.
More than 70 students completed at least one module and were recruited from RI-INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF), and University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Fellows, Arts and Sciences Fellows, and graduate students.
Summer 2023 Program
This summer, RI-INBRE launched the inaugural Workforce Development and Training (WDT) program funded by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training. The WDT program is designed to leverage the resources of the RI-INBRE Centralized Research Core Facility (CRCF) to teach practical biomedical science skills to students and will eventually include incumbent workers.
Eight modules were offered covering the topics Basic Biomedical Laboratory Skills, Small Molecule Separation, 3D Science Visualization, Drug Delivery Formulations, Confocal and Fluorescence Microscopy, Disease State Modeling and Patient Simulation, DNA Sequencing and Bioinformatics, and Proteomics. The modules were taught by faculty instructors and graduate assistants.
More than 70 students completed at least one module and were recruited from RI-INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF), and University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Fellows, Arts and Sciences Fellows, and graduate students.
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