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60 Minutes Films at URI's Inner Space Center
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – November 10, 2009 – Professor Robert Ballard chats with CBS News reporter Lara Logan in the Inner Space Center during an interview that is scheduled to air on 60 Minutes on Nov. 29. The news program is reporting on efforts to explore the oceans by focusing on Ballard's work and the operation of the Inner Space Center, which connects researchers and ships at sea with URI and shore-based scientists. The 60 Minutes film crew also shot footage aboard a URI research expedition to the Black Sea in September.
URI opens Ocean Science and Exploration Center, Pell Marine Science Library
$15 million facility includes Ballard’s Inner Space Center
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – June 1, 2009 – In a ceremony at its Narragansett Bay Campus today, the University of Rhode Island opened the $15 million Ocean Science and Exploration Center and the Pell Marine Science Library, sparkling state-of-the-art facilities that will enable the University to remain one of the nation’s most prestigious centers of oceanographic research, exploration and education.
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Press Coverage
URI awarded contract to manage consortium that operates U.S. research fleet
URI News, 29 June 2009
RI Hosts "Defense & Oceans" Day
Marine Technology Reporter, page 8, June 2009
Inner Space center a dream come true for Ballard
The Providence Journal, 1 June 2009
URI opens it's new Bay Campus Ocean Science and Exploration Center
The Providence Journal, 1 June 2009
URI opens it's new Bay Campus Ocean Science and Exploration Center
The Providence Journal, 1 June 2009
Dr. Robert Ballard discusses the Inner Space Center (1:53 video)
University of Rhode Island YouTube Channel, 16 February 2009
Ocean explorer brings undersea science to life
eSchool News, 9 February 2009
Work begins on URI's $15M Inner Space Center
Providence Business News, 17 April 2008
A hub for 'inner space' explorers
Providence Business News, 10 November 2007
Ground broken at URI sea center
The Providence Journal, 6 November 2007
URI Proposes Undersea Exploration Center
MSNBC, 25 October 2004
Explorer proposes undersea 'space center'
MSNBC, 25 October 2004
Marine explorer Ballard announces initiatives to make URI the global headquarters for ocean exploration
University of Rhode Island Press Release, 13 October 2004
Internet2 may change the way scientists conduct research
Innovations Report, 4 June 2004
Deep down under: Ballard, technology take viewers to ancient undersea world
Narragansett Times, 20 August 2003
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