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.
RI-INBRE hired Rosetta Spino to serve as the WDT Coordinator going forward. We are currently preparing a renewal application so that we can continue this program into the future.
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