Think about how small children learn about the natural world. They observe, explore, find something interesting, pick it up and study it. They ask a parent or teacher to tell them about it. They draw pictures of it. They experiment to find ways (often unconventional!) to use it. Fast forward 20 or so years. Students […]
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2010 RIC SURF fellow and international student, Lorenzo Crumbie, returns to Jamaica to attend medical school
International student Lorenzo Crumbie, 23, chose to attend RIC to pursue a bachelor’s degree in biology for several reasons – family, proximity, the cost of tuition, the popularity of the college’s biology program and his experiences and interactions with members of the Admissions Office. Crumbie, a biology major, will graduate on May 21, while also […]
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PROVIDENCE – May 10, 2011 – On the September day in 2009 that Brent Palavra was supposed to start classes in the University of Rhode Island’s Biotechnology Manufacturing Program, his mother died of sepsis. Anthony Marcello’s father died of brain cancer while Anthony was just beginning his second semester in the program. During summer internships […]
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Media are invited to attend and photograph the following at Bryant University on Friday, May 6: WHO: Twenty-four high school students from Central Falls and Woonsocket WHAT: Working with Bryant science faculty to create microbial fuel cells; meeting with Bryant science majors WHEN: 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday, May 6 WHERE: Bryant University campus, 1150 Douglas […]
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The science of where humans came from is an issue with universal significance, one that students at the Community College of Rhode Island explored on April 1. This exercise was the second in a series of non-credit science workshops offered by the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and the CCRI Biology Department, which are […]
Continue reading "With help of EPSCoR, CCRI holds workshop to introduce science to non-science majors"EPSCoR researcher, Casey Dunn PhD, receives prestigious NSF Watermann Award
Brown University biologist Casey Dunn is NSF’s 2011 Waterman Award winner. Brown University biologist uses sophisticated genomic and computational techniques in a study of deep-sea creatures to examine the origins of a diversity of life The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named its awardee for this year’s Alan T. Waterman Award: Casey Dunn, a biologist at […]
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Continue reading "RISD Faculty Profiles featured on YouTube"Graduating URI student and 2009 SURF student, Particia Coutts, receives press for her research endeavors
KINGSTON, R.I. – April 26, 2011 – Like many high school students, Patricia Coutts had difficulty deciding what college to attend and what subject to study. But when she finally decided on the University of Rhode Island, she said “everything seemed to fall into place.” When she graduates on May 22 with degrees in chemical […]
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Received: 4 June 2010 Accepted: 16 November 2010 Published: 16 November 2010 © 2010 Wu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Recent […]
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