Tag: National Science Foundation
NSF grant funds Hasbro-Brown robot-pet program to benefit elders
PROVIDENCE – A National Science Foundation grant of $1 million will fund work by Brown University’s Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative to design a smart-robot animal...
PC professor awarded NSF grant to study rats in urban environment
PROVIDENCE – Providence College assistant professor of biology Jonathan Richardson was awarded a $125,310 National Science Foundation grant, according to a late September announcement...
$1.5M NSF grant brings data institute to Brown
PROVIDENCE - A $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to establish a mathematical and computational data research institute at Brown University was announced by...
Brown gets $1.5M as part of NSF grant
PROVIDENCE – Brown University was awarded $1.5 million of a $6 million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate how genetic mutations...
Brown receives $9.2M to create bioluminescent neuroscience tools
PROVIDENCE - Brown University has been awarded up to $9.2 million in funding over five years from the National Science Foundation to lead a...
Rhode Island needs more scientific breakthroughs to become a biotech hub,...
Rhode Island wants its own share of the biomedical-, technology- and engineering-based economy that has transformed Boston, and strengthened the competitive position of Massachusetts.
To...
Urgency for innovation should inform economic development
Despite having an unemployment rate that is lower than the national mark, Rhode Island remains a state with a problem.
Last week’s cover story documented...
Nearly $3M awarded for URI research expedition to Arctic’s Northwest Passage
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island’s School of Oceanography was awarded $2.99 million by the National Science Foundation to embark on a research...