Who are we? Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR offers a wealth of outreach and educational opportunities across the entire student spectrum, from elementary school through higher education, with a vast network of expertise and facilities available throughout the Ocean State. We work with K-12 educators to provide opportunities that align with the classroom curriculum, incorporate the Grade Span Expectations and engage students with […]
Continue reading "Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR"Who are we? The University of Rhode Island’s Marine Science Research Facility and Trout Farm Research Facility serve as ideal platforms for experiential learning and outreach experiences. The MSRF is located at the Graduate School of Oceanography, on the Narragansett Bay Campus, at the mouth of Narragansett Bay. It hosts a broad spectrum of local, regional, and global research topics, including, […]
Continue reading "Marine Science & Trout Farm Research Facilities"Who are we? Learning for Life (L4L) is a collaboration of the College Crusade, College Visions, Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College. It is a multi-faceted community and college partnership. L4L links students to a network of services, supports and opportunities that will fortify them for college success and remove any challenges […]
Continue reading "Learning 4 Life | Rhode Island College"Who are we? The Learning Community is a K-8 urban school with a national reputation for excellent instruction, innovation and sharing what works with other public schools. The Learning Community is one of 30 Commended schools in Rhode Island — the only urban middle school to receive this honor. Founded in 2004, The Learning Community serves […]
Continue reading "The Learning Community | K-8"Watershed project provides experience, builds skills The North East Water Resources Network (NEWRnet) project offers on an unparalleled opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to gain valuable lab and field experience under the guidance of faculty mentors as they develop research protocol in several emerging fields. (Check out internship opportunities for Summer 2015) From maintaining high tech sensors to taking water and macroinvertebrate samples, analyzing […]
Continue reading "Hands-on training with Rhode Island EPSCoR Track-2"In humankind’s quest to travel farther and faster, we apparently neglected to consider one pivotal question — how would Nature do it? The thought occurred to biology Professor Jack Costello, Providence College, and his colleagues, upon discovering that a jellyfish robot swam significantly faster when the part of the body that propelled it was flexible. That […]
Continue reading "The need for speed: Following in Nature’s footsteps"Artist brings out beauty beneath the slimy globs San Francisco artist Josie Iselin was working as a docent at a reef when she happened to take a piece of seaweed and hold it up to the sky. “Seaweed is so unceremonious when it’s draping over a rock,” she explained to an audience at a recent […]
Continue reading "Unveiling the secrets and science of seaweed"A summer of research in Antarctica Sometimes, the answers to society’s biggest questions can be found only by travelling to the most remote places on earth. Last December, a group of scientists from the University of Rhode Island and Rutgers University spent four months of the austral summer on the Western Antarctic Peninsula. There, isolated […]
Continue reading "Climate change doesn’t always mean warm"For 10 weeks this summer, Rhode Island NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) undergraduate fellows are working to develop and enhance their investigative skills. But, as students in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program (SURF) discovered in a recent workshop, conducting scientific research is, by itself, not enough. They also have to communicate […]
Continue reading "The art of communicating science"In his 25th year with the Providence College biology department, Professor Jack Costello reflects on the experience, saying, “I’ve really been mentoring students the whole time.” However, he adds, “What happened in the last five years is that Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR developed a system for mentoring students during the summer. EPSCoR formalized the mentoring and added […]
Continue reading "Mentoring goes hand-in-hand with teaching"
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