David Rowley URI College of Pharmacy Professor; chemistry RI INBRE SURF program mentor Rhode Island STAC awards 2012 STAC grant: New Tools and Mechanisms to Combat Aquaculture Diseases. The project sought to develop new tools to promote animal health in aquaculture by building on recent discoveries of marine bacteria that demonstrate impressive protective properties against disease. […]
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RWU student finds her calling in research experience
Meagan Hackey Sophomore; biochemistry Roger Williams University RI EPSCoR SURF 2015; RI INBRE SURF 2016 Meagan Hackey arrived at Roger Williams University for her freshman year in Fall 2014, knowing exactly what she wanted — a biology pre-med track and research work. Within a month of starting classes, she was in the lab of Associate Professor […]
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Research fellow: Jasmine Miller Hometown: Providence, RI School: University of Rhode Island Major: Biological Sciences Mentor: Mindy Levine Project: Detection and in situ fluorescence-based monitoring of hydrocarbon food sources in complex marine environments Growing up in Providence, URI senior Jasmine Miller says that without any scientist role models in her family, she is not sure […]
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Already two weeks into their summer research projects, Rhode Island EPSCoR Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURFs) took a break from their lab and fieldwork Friday to gain a better perspective of what the scientist life may hold for them. With the R/V Endeavor currently docked at the University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay Campus, Graduate […]
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Bringing biotech to life for WVHS students
EPSCoR collaboration sets stage for experiential learning Classroom lessons recently turned real in the hands of Warwick Veterans High School students during a biotechnology crash course at the Community College of Rhode Island. Leveraging talent and resources, Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR, CCRI Assistant Professor Scott Warila, and Ken Kurkoski, WVHS Science Department head, provided 16 seniors and juniors a Hands-on Science […]
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“I’m the first in my entire family to even think about a master’s or Ph.D. And, for me to go to Johns Hopkins? This is a Portuguese kid from Bristol, Rhode Island!” Josh Leitao Senior B.S., biology; B.A. chemistry Minor, public health; certificate, biotechnology Roger Williams University 2013 RI EPSCoR SURF; 2014 RI INBRE SURF […]
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Beatrice Steinert Senior, Brown University Dual major in biology, science and society SURF student, 2014 For her honors thesis project, Beatrice Steinert set out to recreate a 19th century experiment by the embryologist Edwin Grant Conklin, to collect, study and sketch the embryonic developmental stages of Crepidula fornicata, commonly known as the slipper snail. Beachgoers typically spot […]
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Joselynn Wallace University of Rhode Island Ph.D. candidate; biological and environmental sciences RI EPSCoR graduate fellow & summer support On track to graduate with her Ph.D. in May 2017, former RI NSF EPSCoR graduate fellow Joselynn Wallace isn’t exactly sure where her journey will lead after immersing herself in the study of diatoms, the single-celled, […]
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“This was far more in depth than I had ever gotten. It was a lot of trial and error. I hadn’t expected to be so much on my own, so it took me a while to get used to that, to make the responsibilities my own. It was challenging, but exciting at the same time.” […]
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