Making science matter URI grad students experiment with communicating their research The rules for the Science Café were simple: take no more than five minutes to present your research, use at least one PowerPoint slide for support, but no more than five, describe the problem, tell the audience what you found, and explain why your research […]
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Building a better Rhode Island
Federal and state grants grow talent, jobs and business while setting the stage for scientific discovery at Rhode Island institutions The Ocean State’s investment to grow the economy through research and development is reaping dividends through scientific breakthroughs, building an educated workforce, creating new business opportunities, and sustaining job creation. Speaking at the 24th NSF […]
Continue reading "Building a better Rhode Island"Coastal habitats and climate change
“The importance of EPSCoR funding is the development of students and student training. The amount of equipment this funding has brought to this small university has allowed us to do more research and get more students out in the field. It has brought equipment into classes, general biology labs, and allowed us to do extensive surveys […]
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RI NSF EPSCoR undergrad research program develops talent and trains young scientists The numbers alone are impressive: Since 2007, Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR has supported 252 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURFs) under the mentorship of 87 different faculty members at nine partner institutions. But, the real story — and the impact — lies with the individual students who earn […]
Continue reading "‘An experience like no other’"RI EPSCoR event to feature grad student research
Join us Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, for an engaging presentation of graduate student research in the lively and popular science café format. The event will feature 13 graduate students from the University of Rhode Island College of the Environment and Life Sciences, College of Pharmacy, and Graduate School of Oceanography. The researchers, some of whom have been […]
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URI graduate researcher discovers benefits of invasive marsh grass Having powered through her doctoral work in three years, newly minted University of Rhode Island Ph.D. Rose Martin credits her Rhode Island EPSCoR graduate fellowship as the most productive year of her research. Phragmites australis, an invasive grass that often inundates salt marshes, is the target of costly […]
Continue reading "Let it grow"Warming waters: A Rhode Island story
Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Rhode Island Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) supports research at nine institutions of higher education in the Ocean State. Working together to understand the response of marine life to climate variability, teams of Rhode Island scientists study three specific research questions about […]
Continue reading "Warming waters: A Rhode Island story"STAC announces 2016 round of grant funds
Through the Collaborative Research Grant program, the RI Science & Technology Advisory Council (STAC) makes available funding to support multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary projects that focus on building research capacity and infrastructure across institutions to advance the competitiveness of Rhode Island researchers. This Call for Proposals is in support of STAC’s partnership with the National Science Foundation‘s (NSF) […]
Continue reading "STAC announces 2016 round of grant funds"Tri-state $6m EPSCoR grant focuses on dams
RI, Maine & NH join forces to address issues, develop tools, and inform policy A new $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) EPSCoR program will fund a four-year study examining the future of dams in New England. This project marks an expansion in partners and scope for the New England Sustainability Consortium (NEST), adding […]
Continue reading "Tri-state $6m EPSCoR grant focuses on dams"The evolutionary riddle of jellyfish
“Many of these different organisms have these shared core genes, shared biology, so studying one can inform our understanding of the others. One of the questions we have been asking for eons is, what makes us human? By studying a broader diversity of animals, we can learn more about human biology.” Solving the evolutionary riddle of […]
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