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Genetic engineering class turns teaching on its head
The Chariho Times. WILL RICHMOND 06/10/2004
WEST KINGSTON - With the help of some local high school students University of Rhode Island visiting professor Dr. Albert Kausch is turning learning upside down.

High schools teaching agriscience get $25,000 grant
Providence Business News 06/04/2004
The Rhode Island Rural Development Council, a USDA Rural Development State Council in partnership with lifeedu, a non-profit educational organization affiliated with the University of Rhode Island recieved a $25,000 grant from the Rhode Island School to Career office, Region II, and additional funding from Hybrigene Inc., an agriscience lab in South Kingstown, to conduct a high school agriscience training initiative at Hybrigene, Inc.

Professor introduces biotechnology courses to high school students
By Tamar Weinberg
Published: Thursday, February 19, 2004
The Good 5 Cent Cigar (URI Student Newspaper)
2/19/04 - Rhode Island high school students have recently been given the opportunity to become involved in a unique biotechnology program directed by Albert Kausch, a visiting associate professor for plant sciences at the University of Rhode Island.

Cool classes 101: URI professor gets SKHS students prepped for genetics
Top Stories - December 24, 2003 By: MARK SCHIELDROP. Narragansett Times
SOUTH KINGSTON - "Genetic technology will change everything we know, from now on," said Dr. Albert Kausch, professor of genetics at the University of Rhode Island, as he addressed South Kingstown High School students last week.

Lifeedu.org: New Nonprofit Organization That Develops Nonbiased Educational Materials for Biotechnology Education
ASPB EDUCATION FORUM Nov/Dec. 2003
We first learned of Lifeedu through the education posters at Plant Biology 2003 in Honolulu. Lifeedu sponsored eight students involved in one of its courses (“Modern Techniques in Genetic Engineering”) to present posters there.

Biotech education effort under way
Providence Journal July 09, 2003
KINGSTON - The latest in science technology may be entering high schools across the state as early as this coming school year. Twelve science teachers from around the state including 8 from Ponaganset High School met with LifeEDU director and University of Rhode Island instructor Albert Kausch to discuss ways to bring biotechnology into the classroom.

High school students in URI biotech class going to Hawaii to present research at international conference
KINGSTON, R.I. -- May 23, 2003 -- When URI adjunct professor Albert Kausch visited South Kingstown High School last fall to see if any students would be interested in participating in one of his upper-level biotechnology classes, Courtney Delmonico and Hillary Peabody jumped at the chance.

Agricultural Biotechnology: URI Feeds Students with Know-how and the World with Food
41' N By Arliss Ryan
A URI researcher is breaking new ground in molecular improvement and gene discovery in grasses and cereal crops and is introducing people to the exciting new world of biotechnology.

New URI biotechnology course introduces students to applications, controversies, ethics of DNA use
KINGSTON, R.I. -- December 20, 2002 -- "Biotechnology is embedded in our everyday life, but most people don’t know it. And what most people hear about biotech is controversial," said URI Assistant Professor Marta Gomez-Chiarri.