After two strategic planning meetings with the wider EPSCoR community, the office staff have updated the previous Strategic Plan to reflect new initiatives, research, and recommendations from NSF and our affiliates. This adaptive plan focuses on the goals of EPSCoR for both the research and the broader impacts of our program in the coming years. […]
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EPSCoR Users have access to Brown’s Super Computing Facilities
All BioMed premium users have full access to 256 core with ‘normal’ priority. EPSCoR sponsored users also have access to additional 256 cores with ‘highest’ priority. All users have access to the 40+ bioinformatics software packages installed and tested on the system. Disk storage for data storage is the responsibility of the users. To be […]
Continue reading "EPSCoR Users have access to Brown’s Super Computing Facilities"Marine Life Science Facility receives a Flow Cytometer purchased by EPSCoR
The RI EPSCoR program has acquired a new BD Influx flow cytometer optimized for marine applications. The instrument is located in the Marine Life Sciences Facility at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus. Instrument Description: The Influx flow cytometer analyzes and sorts individual cells by measuring forward and sideward light scatter, and fluorescence […]
Continue reading "Marine Life Science Facility receives a Flow Cytometer purchased by EPSCoR"STAC releases RFP for Collaborative Grant
$800,000 of these funds are in collaboration with the RI NSF EPSCoR grant and will be dedicated to projects that focus on the research themes of RI NSF EPSCoR and/or utilize the existing three RI NSF EPSCoR Centers. Those themes are: marine life sciences, climate change effects on marine life especially in Narragansett Bay, and […]
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Continue reading "Dolphins spotted in Narragansett Bay!"EPSCoR Researcher Casey Dunn releases a paper in Nature and former SURF Caitlin Feehery is mentioned
Researchers at Brown University and partner institutions have compiled the most comprehensive evolutionary tree for mollusks to date. Their analysis surprisingly places two enigmatic groups, cephalopods and monoplacophorans, as sister clades. The team has also shown that there was a single origin for shelled mollusks. Results appear in Nature. Read the rest of the Brown press […]
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Nineteen of EPSCoR’s science leaders from 7 partner institutions came together with Cornelia Dean, science writer for and former editor of The New York Times, and Camille Feanny, Senior Producer and Anthropologist working at Environment News Trust to learn how to effectively communicate with the media regarding their science and research. Workshop Info
Continue reading "EPSCoR and Metcalf Institute host Science Communication Workshop"URI begins Fall Honors Colloquium Are you Ready for the Future?
Join us at 7:00 p.m. for interactive presentations in the lobby. Have some pizza, coffee, tea and cookies while you chat about the future with the Honors Colloquium class students. At 7:30 p.m., we will move into the more formal presentations on the main stage. Hear about food, family and the future. Where will medicine […]
Continue reading "URI begins Fall Honors Colloquium Are you Ready for the Future?"SURF Students present at URI Ryan Center
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Conference The culmination of the SURF summer is the Poster Symposium. It is a chance for all of the students sponsored by both Rhode Island’s NSF EPSCoR and INBRE to share their experiences, research, and insights with each other, the mentors, and other distinguished guests. The Symposium takes place at […]
Continue reading "SURF Students present at URI Ryan Center"URI engineering professor awarded prestigious ‘early career’ NSF grant for nanoparticle research
Media Contact: Todd McLeish, 401-874-7892KINGSTON, R.I. – July 8, 2011 – An increasing number of consumer products are being made with engineered nanoparticles – from electronics and cosmetics to auto parts and sporting goods – and yet little is known about how those particles affect biological systems when released from the products into the environment. With […]
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