Greenville, NC—At East Carolina University (ECU), a newly outfitted and staffed ROVER (RENCI Outreach Vehicle for Education and Research) is fulfilling its potential on all fronts: educational, research, and emergency response.

GREENVILLE, NC, June 12, 2008 – Faculty and graduate students from RENCI’s engagement center at East Carolina University hit the road in the RENCI Outreach Vehicle for Education and Research (ROVER) to discuss the weather at several Dare County schools during the last week in May.

ASHEVILLE, NC, May 6, 2008 – The teachers who make science an up close and personal experience for children in Western North Carolina have an impressive new tool to use, thanks to an outreach education van offered by Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC Asheville.

  The  Renaissance Computing Institute’s (RENCI) first Outreach Vehicle for Education and Research—or ROVER—will hit the road this summer in western North Carolina through a collaborative effort that involves RENCI at UNC Asheville, the National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC) at UNC Asheville and the North Carolina Arboretum.