Rhode Island College Receives Champlin Foundations Grant for New Biochemistry Lab
Friday, December 12, 2014
Rhode Island College (RIC) was awarded a $246,385 grant from The Champlin Foundations to fund a new biochemistry lab that will strengthen RIC’s position as a leader in science education.
“The biochemistry program at RIC is growing, and I credit our student-centered faculty and the aid of The Champlin Foundations as the catalysts that have sparked that enthusiasm,” says RIC President Nancy Carriuolo. “Enhancing our STEM programming and teaching facilities will allow us to graduate even more skilled professionals for this in-demand workforce industry.”
The lab will be used for an intensive six-hour-per-week laboratory research course that will allow students to study a spectrum of biochemical techniques and integrates design, problem solving, critical thinking, data interpretation and written communication.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe funding will also be used to renovate an existing classroom in the Clarke Science Building. The renovation will turn the room into a complete teaching, prep room, research lab, and office with meeting space. The new lab will benefit RIC’s biochemistry program which was introduced as a concentration under the Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry degree program in 2010.
RIC’s rreviously endowed grants from the Champlin Foundations have been used in the construction of the RI STEM Center in the Henry Barnard School and for teaching and research labs in the Fogarty Life Science and Clarke Science buildings.
For more information on RIC’s biochemistry program, visit their site or contact Rebecca Keister, 401-456-4679, [email protected] or Laura Hart, 401-456-8977, [email protected].
Established in 1854, Rhode Island College serves approximately 9,000 graduate and undergraduate students through its five schools: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, the School of Social Work, the School of Management and the School of Nursing. For more information, visit their site.
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