URI neurosciences program is expanding

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island’s Interdisciplinary Neurosciences Program will offer master’s and doctorate degrees in neurosciences, with the goal of educating scientists and professors who can contribute to private- and public-sector research.
The program, approved June 27 by the R.I. Board of Governors for Higher Education, will also produce researchers who will be able to focus on some of the most debilitating brain disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.
URI will accept three to five students in the graduate program in the fall semester but the university has the ability to expand the program. &#8226