URI sponsors national workshop on developing bioenergy crops

Albert Kausch, director of the Plant Biotechnology Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island, is welcoming 11 scientists from across the nation and Argentina to a 10-day National Science Foundation and Department of Energy sponsored workshop. The workshop runs through April 20 at Kausch’s lab in the West Kingston Research Facility, 530 Liberty Lane, West Kingston. Students are invited to stop by the lab during the week, any day except Friday, between 3:30 and 5 p.m. to chat with the visiting plant scientists and talk about what they are working on. Read more.