{"id":63383,"date":"2010-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/conference-to-showcase-research-inspiration-of-a-new-generation-of-r-i-scientists\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T00:00:00","slug":"conference-to-showcase-research-inspiration-of-a-new-generation-of-r-i-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/07\/conference-to-showcase-research-inspiration-of-a-new-generation-of-r-i-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference to showcase research, inspiration of a new generation of R.I. scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tResearch networks, universities pool to promote growth of research in RI<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 29, 2010 \u2013 The scientific conference being held at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Friday, July 30, isn\u2019t standard faire in the academic world. Instead of presentations by seasoned researchers and faculty members who are well over thirty years old, this one features the fresh voices of an entirely new generation of scientists. The presenters are undergraduate students who have been involved in an intensive high level, grant-supported research experience for 10-weeks in laboratories with mentors statewide.<\/p>\n


\nThe majority of the students were awarded competitive internship positions by the Rhode Island\u2019s IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (RI-INBRE) and the Rhode Island Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and this is their conference, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Conference.<\/p>\n


\nThe 94 fellows presenting are not just from 溏心vlog免费B站. They are from all colleges in the State of Rhode Island — Brown University, Providence College, Salve Regina University, Roger Williams University, Rhode Island College, Bryant University, and the Community College of Rhode Island.

\nFree and open to the public, the conference will be held at the University\u2019s Thomas M. Ryan Center, One Lincoln Almond Plaza, Kingston Campus. Set up on the concourse, students will present their multidisciplinary research findings using posters that graphically depict their results. The first session runs from 9:15-10:45 a.m. and the second session runs from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Opening remarks begin at 9 a.m. and feature:<\/p>\n


\n\u2022\tElizabeth Roberts, Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor

\n\u2022\tVinny Browning, Senior Manager, Quality Analytical Laboratories, Amgen

\n\u2022\tDonald DeHayes, 溏心vlog免费B站 Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs

\n\u2022\tPeter Alfonso, RI EPSCoR Project Director & 溏心vlog免费B站 Vice President for Research and Economic Development

\n\u2022\tZahir Shaikh, RI-INBRE Program Director, 溏心vlog免费B站 Pharmacy Professor<\/p>\n


\nThe RI-INBRE and EPSCoR Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program offers summer research opportunities to undergraduate students who are considering careers in biomedical or behavioral research. The goals are to expose undergraduates to laboratory research and to familiarize them with the opportunities that exist for careers in biomedical and behavioral research. Students receive a stipend for their work.

\nThe shared goals of EPSCoR and INBRE are to promote and support scientific research in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n


\nIn addition to leading the undergraduate research fellows program, the INBRE and EPSCoR have established core laboratories for work in pharmacology, molecular toxicology, genomics, proteomics and marine life sciences. They have also supported efforts at participating schools to enhance their scientific research capacity by hiring faculty and graduate students, purchasing equipment and running lecture programs.<\/p>\n


\nINBRE, which focuses on biomedical research, is funded by $42 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n


\nEPSCoR is a joint effort of the state’s 11 institutions of higher education, and is funded through a four-year, $6.75 million National Science Foundation grant. <\/p>\n


\nStudent research is covering a range of biomedical, life sciences and marine research topics from things like conversion of oil extracted from algae into biodiesel fuel to research looking into mercury accumulation in brain, muscle and liver tissue in fish; to a study of the elderly and addiction, a strategy for sensitive electrochemical detection of cancer to determining the quality of Aquidneck Island\u2019s watersheds, to amplifying the brain\u2019s electric potentials, and to storytelling as a therapeutic technique for recovery. Students are partnered with faculty mentors from each institution and this conference is the first presentation of their results.<\/p>\n


\nFor more details about the research, view the program online<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research networks, universities pool to promote growth of research in RI KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 29, 2010 \u2013 The scientific conference being held at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Friday, July 30, isn\u2019t standard faire in the academic world. Instead of presentations by seasoned researchers and faculty members who are well over thirty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}