URI Professor Walt Besio applies brain wave monitoring electrodes to student Ivett Acarapi in the animal lab at Peckham Farm. Besio received a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation for research to show how the nervous system functions in health and disease. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND/JOE GIBLIN
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A biomedical engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island has received a $6 million National Science Foundation grant for research to show how the nervous system functions in health and disease. According to a news release from URI, Walt Besio will join colleagues from institutions in Kentucky and Oklahoma on the…