Summer 2025
RI-INBRE 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 initially funded for two years by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training.
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The second year of the Workforce Development program featured 14 modules: 3D Science Visualization, Application of Biochromatography, Basic Laboratory Skills, Introduction to Biological Data Science, Cell Culture (CCRI), DNA Manipulation, Effective Scientific Communication, Fluorescence Microscopy, Introduction to Enzyme-Drug Assays, Modern Approaches for Detecting and Separating Small Molecules, Nanosensors, Patient Simulation, Principles of Drug Delivery Formulations and Worm Model Neurobiology.
More than 80 students completed modules. Students were recruited from RI-INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) and the University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Fellows, Arts and Sciences Fellows, and graduate students.
Summer 2023
RI-INBRE launched the inaugural Workforce Development and Training (WDT) program funded by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training. The WDT is designed to leverage the resources of the RI-INBRE Centralized Research Core Facility (CRCF) to teach practical biomedical science skills to participants.
Eight modules were offered covering the topics of 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. Modules were taught by faculty instructors and graduate assistants.
More than 70 students participated in the Summer 2023 program. Participants were recruited from the RI-INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) and the University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Fellows Art and Sciences Fellows and graduate students.
The RI-INBRE Workforce Development Program is funded by the US Department of Labor award 25A60CP000413, totaling $1.2 million. RI-INBRE and its associated core facilities are funded by the Rhode Island Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (https://ror.org/05y9ek347) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number P20GM103430 totaling $4,090,614. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Department of Labor or the National Institutes of Health.