SURF program shapes undergraduate research experience

Biology major Emma Lederer, a rising junior at Providence College, is conducting research in Professor Jack Costello’s lab for her second Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) with Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR.  Here, Lederer kicks off a series of blog posts she will write this summer during her research fellowship to share the experience from her perspective and […]

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Providence College grad earns prestigious NSF award

‘My research experience was something I would not trade for anything else in the world.’ — Jennifer Lynn Cyr The National Science Foundation received nearly 17,000 applications for the 2016 Graduate Research Fellowship Program. When the 5 a.m. email recently landed in her inbox, announcing the 2,000 successful candidates, Jennifer Lynn Cyr, a 2015 Providence College graduate, […]

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