Roger Williams University will host the 7th New England Science Public-Biology New England South (NESP-BioNES), Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. The NESP-BioNES has grown significantly since its inception, from a single sponsor in 2004 (the first unofficial meeting) to nine partner institutions in 2013. This year’s sponsors are: Roger Williams University, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Brown University, Bryant […]
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Looking at science from new perspectives
An afternoon of collaboration Nov. 8 at the Rhode Island School of Design revealed that the distance between the disciplines of science and art is not as far as some might think. The Day of Science at RISD, one of nine institutions that comprise Rhode Island NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), drew […]
Continue reading "Looking at science from new perspectives"Statewide EPSCoR call for White Papers
The Steering Committee for Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR will host a public, statewide meeting Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, from 2-4 p.m. concerning the next proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Collaborative Agreement for their Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The meeting will be held at the Providence Chamber of Commerce, […]
Continue reading "Statewide EPSCoR call for White Papers"Meeting to explore next NSF proposal
The Steering Committee of Rhode Island NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) will host a public statewide meeting Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, in Providence. The meeting concerns the next proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Collaborative Agreement. During the meeting, the Steering Committee will present information on the next application […]
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College lab immerses high schoolers in science (With the 2013-14 school year under way, Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR’s outreach and education program for students in grades 6-12 will provide hands-on experiences in labs and out in the fields for hundreds of Ocean State students.) In a departure from the daily classroom routine, a group of […]
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States design system to assess watershed health Rhode Island researchers are collaborating with their counterparts in Delaware and Vermont to create a network of high tech sensors in the watersheds of the three states. The selection of equipment is part of the process in putting a $6 million National Science Foundation grant to work, collecting real-time data […]
Continue reading "What’s in our water?"Bioinformatics workshop Oct. 18
Join the Center for Computation and Visualization for a workshop on the high-performance computing, data storage, and bioinformatics applications available to Brown, EPSCoR, URI and MBL researchers. The workshop will be held on Friday, October 18, 2013, from 9am – 4pm at the Digital Scholarship Lab in Brown University’s Rockefeller Library. Topics will include: • an […]
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Given distinct climatic periods in the various facets of the Earth’s climate system, many attempts have been made to determine the exact timing of ‘change points’ or regime boundaries. However, identification of change points is not always a simple task. A time series containing N data points has approximately N k distinct placements of k […]
Continue reading "Providence College to host colloquium"Research facility offers seawater access
The Marine Science Research Facility at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus is one of the most versatile seawater facilities in the country. “We can manipulate the water to be whatever temperature, salinity or filtration researchers may want,” said Ed Baker, who manages the facility. “We can chill the water, heat the water, filter out […]
Continue reading "Research facility offers seawater access"Workshop explores extreme weather impact
Hydrologist David Vallee looks at the intensity and frequency of rainfall, where water flows, and how species of trees, birds and insects are dying or disappearing in Rhode Island. “I can’t tell you where we’re headed, but it’s different,” Vallee told the audience gathered for a recent extreme weather seminar presented by the Metcalf Institute […]
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