The Current is RI NSF EPSCoR’s bi-annual magazine, highlighting the scientific and engineering research of faculty and students at institutions across Rhode Island. This edition details the student research experience our annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).
Continue reading "Winter edition of The Current is here!"This two-day course, designed by the American Institute for Biological Sciences, will provide participants with the skills required to become effective members of scientific teams.
Continue reading "RI C-AIM hosts Team Science workshop, Feb. 21-22"The Rhode Island Consortium for Coastal Ecology Assessment, Innovation, and Modeling has announced the recipients of its 2018-19 Seed Grant program, which assists faculty at the University of Rhode Island developing innovative projects in STEM and arts and humanities fields.
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Stewart Copeland has been a webmaster, documentary filmmaker, and even a touring musician over the past 10 years. Now, the Tennessee native is developing 3D models of sensor buoys which comprise the integrated Bay Observatory, a new array of equipment to monitor the ecological changes of Narragansett Bay.
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In this issue: RISD students visualize climate and human affects on RI plants, new tech in the RI Nano Lab, grant and presentation resources for graduate students, and more!
Continue reading "C-AIM September newsletter is here!"In their latest podcast, Providence College talks with alumna Dr. Katherine Lacasse, now an assistant professor of social psychology at Rhode Island College and researcher for RI C-AIM, who studies how performing green behaviors impacts people’s self-perceptions and political attitudes regarding environmental issues.
Continue reading "Providence College talks with C-AIM’s Katherine Lacasse"Mindy Levine, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island, is the first recipient of the Sessler Early Career Researcher Prize, awarded in July by the editors of the journal Supramolecular Chemistry for a research paper published in the journal in 2016.
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In this issue: An introduction to the people and mission of RI C-AIM, how the integrated Bay Observatory is improving our knowledge of ecological changes in Narragansett Bay, and the new tech being developed by researchers across the state to detect important chemicals and species.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—When Shannon Kingsley and Nadia Lahlaf first arrived at Rhode Island School of Design’s Nature Lab in May, their goal was clear: produce a tangible product highlighting how climate change has affected plant life in Rhode Island’s salt marshes since the 1950s.
Continue reading "Plant life: Brown, RISD SURFs visualize flora of RI salt marshes"
When Krystyna Kula was a child, she learned first-hand about Narragansett Bay as a volunteer for Save The Bay. Now, the Smithfield native is spending her summer with Bryant University’s Dr. Christopher Reid, studying how micro-organisms transport carbon and other nutrients into larger species.
Continue reading "Hungry Science: SURF students research coastal food web dynamics"
RI NSF EPSCoR is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Cooperative Agreements #OIA-2433276 and in part by the RI Commerce Corporation via the Science and Technology Advisory Committee [STAC]. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the RI Commerce Corporation, STAC, our partners or our collaborators.