The latest news & opportunities from RI C-AIM
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Save the Date! 2020 RI C-AIM Research Symposium
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Mark your calendars! RI C-AIM's 2020 Research Symposium will be held on
Monday, April 6, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at the University of Rhode Island's Memorial Union. An agenda and further details will be forthcoming.
We look forward to seeing everyone in the RI C-AIM community and highlighting our Year 3 progress!
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2020 SURF-Still Time to Apply!
Applications for our
2020 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) are being accepted until
Friday, Feb. 7!
Undergraduates from RI C-AIM's
eight partner institutions are encouraged to apply for this intensive, 10-week introduction to scientific research.
For questions, please contact RI C-AIM SURF Coordinator
Jim Lemire at
[email protected].
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2020 RI C-AIM Vis-a-Thon
In collaboration with
The Nature Lab @RISD
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2020 Vis-a-Thon
aims to promote visualization as an integral facet of research methodology and provide opportunities for participants to experiment with innovative ways to create and effectively utilize visual imagery and language.
The Vis-a-Thon is open to any undergraduate, graduate student or post-doc conducting RI C-AIM-related research at a
partner institution.
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Student Spotlight
Teresa Mako, URI
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Last month, University of Rhode Island and RI C-AIM student
Teresa Mako
successfully defended her doctoral thesis,
"Dual Detection of Nitrite and Nitrate in Aquatic Environments Using Paper-Based Microfluidic Devices,"
advised by
Dr. Mindy Levine. Congratulations!
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Time Management for Graduate Students
This workshop will introduce effective time management strategies to help graduate students be better prepared to make each day a productive one.
RSVP to
Cara Mitnick
, Dir. of Professional Development, URI Graduate School, at
[email protected]
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*Counts towards CDP Certificate credit*
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NSF INCLUDES
Created through
NSF's Big Ideas
initiative,
NSF INCLUDES
(Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) aims to enhance U.S. leadership in science and engineering by developing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent from all sectors of society.
Learn more
about funding & resources through NSF INCLUDES.
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Olympus Image of the Year Competition
Submissions due by Friday, Jan. 31, 2020
Olympus is continuing to search for the best light microscopy images in 2019—this time on a global scale. Olympus’ first Image of the Year Global Life Science Light Microscopy Award recognizes the very best in life science imaging worldwide.
Participants can win a CX43 microscope with DP27 digital camera, X Line objectives or an OM-D E-M5 Mark II camera.
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CDP Resource Highlight
The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM
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Angela Byars-Winston and Maria Lund Dahlberg, Editors
Explore more career development resources through our CDP catalog!
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New Year, New Faces @RI C-AIM
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Dr. Maia joins us as RI C-AIM's new institutional lead for Rhode Island College. As assistant professor of Biology, her research focuses on fish biomechanics in light of habitat changes. She has also served as a 2019 SURF mentor.
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Dr. Davies joins as operating manager of RI C-AIM's
Bay Observatory
, and is visiting associate professor at URI's College of Environmental & Life Sciences. His research focuses on
Intertidal and deep-sea ecology.
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Patricia Thibodeau
Having recently received her Ph.D from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Dr. Thibodeau joins C-AIM as a postdoctoral fellow of coastal marine plankton ecology in
Dr. Tatiana Rynearson's lab.
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Sea urchins, the next commercially viable species?
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URI and RI C-AIM researcher Dr. Coleen Suckling explains her work on Atlantic purple sea urchins as a potential industry for consumption.
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Suckling's students Anna Byczynski, Max Zavell and Alli McKenna hold sea urchins being raised at her lab on the URI Bay Campus. (Photo by Michael Salerno, courtesy URI)
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NSF Deadlines:
Be sure to consult upcoming funding/project due dates for faculty and students alike from the National Science Foundation through
their web portal
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Rhode Island EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Award #OIA-1655221 . Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
For more information about RI C-AIM and RI NSF EPSCoR, contact Communications Coordinator Shaun Kirby at 401-874-6888 or
[email protected]
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