The late Sen. Claiborne Pell, state Rep. Eileen S. Naughton and the taxpayers of Rhode Island were singled out for repeated thank-yous Monday morning as the state’s political leaders joined scientists, Navy officers and hundreds of others in opening the new Ocean Science and Exploration Center at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.

The three-story building, on the university’s Bay Campus, is home to the relocated Pell Marine Science Library and the school’s Sea Grant library.

Full Story: Oceanic center ushers in ‘new phase of scientific discovery’ Source: Providence Journal, June 2nd, 2009 Author: Peter B. Lord Added on June 2nd, 2009 at 9:07 am, by Matt Mikula