URI’s Metcalf Institute receives $1.7M grant to create science communication fellowship

James Bessette

07/05/2022

THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND’S Metcalf Institute received a $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a new fellowship to train and support science communicators from marginalized communities in environmental science.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island’s Metcalf Institute recently became the beneficiary of a $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a fellowship that will train and support science communicators from marginalized communities in environmental science. URI said the funding supports the five-year SciComm Identities Project, which starting in January 2023 will…