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April 10, 2006

R.I. gets $6.75M science research grant

PROVIDENCE - Governor Carcieri and state legislators announced today that the state has received a $6.75 million research grant from the National Science Foundation and unveiled a package of legislation and budget appropriations focused on building the state’s science and technology sectors.

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., was instrumental in securing the grant for Rhode Island, through the NSF’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. The program was created to help states that historically haven’t received large amounts of research funding from the federal government.

Under the grant, the state will receive $2.25 million a year through fiscal 2008. The University of Rhode Island will administer the grant, which will be used primarily to set up three facilities for studying genomics, the studying and characterization of proteins, and marine life sciences.

The facilities will be shared by Rhode Island’s academic institutions, including Brown University and URI.

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