R.I. graduate students get fellowship grants

BOSTON – Three graduate research students in Rhode Island will receive federal fellowship grants to assist with their environmental research projects.
About $8.6 million in grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “Science to Achieve Results” will be awarded to 12 graduate students at New England universities.
Two Rhode Island students are from Brown University and the other is from the University of Rhode Island.
The $84,000 awards go to:
• Megan Creighton of Brown for “Carbon Nanomaterials as Environmental Sorbents: Friend or Foe?”
• Sarah Corman Crosby of Brown for “Spartina alterniflora in a changing climate: implications of rising temperatures for salt-marsh persistence.”
• Gordon Ober of URI for “Impacts of Elevated CO2 and Nutrients on Marine Communities and Trophic Interactions.”
Other fellows who won grants are from Boston University, Harvard University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Yale University. •

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