The University of Guam has been awarded $20 million to expand its research capabilities on coral reef survival in rapidly changing environmental conditions. The five-year grant is from the National Science Foundation’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, more commonly referred to as EPSCoR, and will considerably expand upon work

The University of Guam’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Guam EPSCoR), in collaboration with researchers from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa-PacIOOS (UH Mānoa), were recently featured in the September 2019 edition of the Regional Studies in Marine Science Journal for their assessment of the oceanographic processes and patterns

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)Guam EPSCoR’s Guam Ecosystems Collaboratorium Seed Funding Grant Submission Deadline: September 27, 2019 Guam EPSCoR’s Guam Ecosystems Collaboratorium is seeking proposals from junior faculty members of the University of Guam for seed funding grant opportunities. Guam EPSCoR seed funding will include experimental project costs for collaborative projects

GUAM EPSCOR REQUEST FOR LETTERS OF INTEREST  The Guam EPSCoR Office will begin to prepare and submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR) Research Infrastructure Improvement Grant Program (RII) for funding to conduct coral reef and biodiversity research, expand and utilize

Melissa Gabriel  Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy & Pharm D.; Northeastern University Thesis: “Gene Expression of Massive Porites along a Sediment Gradient”

Dareon Rios Bachelor of Science in Human Biology; University of Califronia, San Diego Thesis: “Population Genomics of Acropora pulchra in Guam“