October 31, 2019 Keep Kids Safe This Halloween HIGHLIGHTS With Info From Our Safety Office Happy Halloween! URI Opens New Engineering Building COPD Planned for Nov. 6 Turn Your Clocks Back Saturday Veterans Day Events Special Section And More! Lisa Jacome, Morale Welfare and Recreation Administrative Assistant helping Gracyn Kinsella, 6, and her cousin Jocelyn Cob, 4, decorating cookies at the Escape the Haunted Warehouse event Oct. 19. More than 400 people attended, and the weather was gorgeous! Inside This Issue NAVSTA Newport children and adults need to think about Safety Office safety on this annual day of make-believe. Around the Station 2-5 Halloween is a cherished tradition but At the Clinic 6-7 Motorists the excitement of the night can cause The National Safety Council urges children to forget to be careful. There is Meat & Potatoes 8 motorists to be especially alert on no real “trick” to making Halloween a Halloween. MWR 9 “treat” for the entire family. Watch for children darting out from The major dangers are not from between parked cars. Now Hear This 10-11 witches or spirits, but rather from falls Watch for children walking on and pedestrian/car crashes. Many roadways, medians and curbs. Veterans Day 12 communities officially designate a Veterans News 13-16 “Beggars’ Night” and assign specific Continued on next page hours for trick-or-treat activities. Both 1 AROUND THE STATION ... Halloween Safety, continued get out of cars on the curbside, not on the Enter and exit driveways traffic side. carefully. At twilight and later in the Plan your route ahead evening, watch for children in dark of time. clothing. Trick or treat in familiar neighborhoods. Parents Carry a flashlight Before children start out on their with fresh batteries after “trick or treat” rounds, parents dark. should: Take along a cell Make sure that an adult or an phone. older responsible youth will be Always trick or treat MWR and Child Youth Programs (CYP) supervising the outing for children in groups, accompanied employees and volunteers dressed up under age 12. by an adult. for the Haunted Warehouse. Know the names of older Follow a curfew and children’s companions. take a watch with a Instruct your children to travel backlight. only in familiar areas and along an Stay on the sidewalks and out of Do not eat any candy until it is established route. the streets. Cross only at inspected for tampering under bright Teach your children to stop only intersections and designated lights. at houses or apartment buildings that crosswalks. Avoid candy that has loose are well lit and never to enter a Walk. No running. wrappings, is unwrapped, has stranger’s home. Do not trample through puncture holes, or is homemade. Establish a return time. flowerbeds and gardens. Watch out Small children should not be Tell your youngsters not to eat for open flames in jack-o-lanterns. allowed hard candy they may choke any treats until they return home. Walk with your head up and be on. Report any suspicious or criminal Review all appropriate trick-or-treat aware of your surroundings. activity to an adult or the police. safety precautions, including Carry a spare Halloween bag, in pedestrian/traffic safety rules. case yours breaks or you fill your Costume Design Pin a slip of paper with the original one. Do not approach Only fire-retardant materials child’s name, address, and phone unfamiliar pets and animals. should be used for costumes. number inside a pocket or to their Do not cut across yards and stay Costumes should be loose so warm costume in case the youngster is out of backyards. Follow traffic clothes can be worn underneath. separated from the group. signals and do not jaywalk. Costumes should not be so long Prepare homes for trick-or- Always watch for cars backing up that they are a tripping hazard. (Falls treaters by clearing porches, lawns, or turning. Review the “stop, drop, are the leading cause of unintentional and sidewalks and by placing jack-o- and roll” procedure in case your injuries on Halloween.) lanterns away from doorways and costume catches on fire. If children are allowed out after landings. Never accept rides from dark, outfits should be made with Watch for children in the street strangers. Respect other people and light colored materials. Strips of and on medians. Exit driveways and their property. reflective tape should be used to alleyways carefully. Have children Be polite and say “thank you.” make children visible. 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NUWC Division Newport looks to collaboration with URI’s new advanced engineering center NUWC Division Newport Public Affairs Office A quick tour through the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering makes it clear how the new Kingston campus 190,000- square-foot, $150-million facility is a win for the school, state of Rhode Island and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport. “The new engineering center is nothing short of spectacular. It is set up to foster collaboration in cross- disciplinary teams, not limited to engineering, that has potential to truly bring engineering education to a new standard that will drive innovation,” NUWC’s Chief Technology Officer Vic Ricci said. “As a main supplier of workforce to Division Newport, that bodes well (U.S. Navy photos by Public Affairs Officer Jeff Prater) for us. We need to continue our work with the URI College of University of Rhode Island President David Dooley (from left) Engineering, as well as our other chats with Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport regional universities to help us build Commanding Officer Capt. Michael Coughlin during the Oct. 7 the workforce we need into the next grand opening of the Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineer- century. ing at URI's Kingston campus. “Standing there at the ribbon cutting, I was very proud to be a visitors wound their way through the on specific research themes: Rhode Islander and URI alum,” building. biomedical technology; robotics; Ricci added. “In one word: Wow!” From the first floor atrium, the water for the world; smart cities; Ricci, along with Division group traversed a spiral staircase to materials, sensors and Newport Commanding Officer Capt. the fourth floor where stops included instrumentation; clean energy; Michael Coughlin, Public Affairs a designated area for the National nanotechnology and cybersecurity. Officer Jeff Prater, and Technology Institute for Undersea Vehicle “They are teaching students to Partnership Officer Mary Sylvia, Technology, a Smart Grid Security work the way we do, or at least the represented Division Newport on Research Laboratory, robotics way we need to do, in practice Oct. 7 at a grand opening for the new laboratories and workspaces for throughout industry,” said Ricci, building. A few hundred people graduate students. who is a member of the URI College packed into the atrium of the A short elevator ride to the lower of Engineering Advisory Board. Fascitelli Center to listen to level brought the group by a series of “When I think of the world-class distinguished guests and take a tour active learning classrooms, as well as research that was done in the old of the facility, which took about 12 a room dedicated to work with the facilities, I can only imagine the new years to construct from conception to 401 Tech Bridge, one of five new heights this state-of-the-art center opening. national technology bridges. could propel research.” Sunlight poured through the URI’s largest and most The impact this new facility will seemingly endless glass walls that innovative academic building, each have on Division Newport is wide line the exterior of the building as of the five floors has centers focused reaching. URI and Division Newport 3 AROUND THE STATION ... professor of ocean engineering at Newport employees are attending NUWC, URI URI, was a guest panelist at Division URI part time through funding Newport’s Advanced Naval provided by the division’s Advanced continued Technology Exercise (ANTX). Degree Training Program and two Miller spoke about the role employees are at the school full time currently have five active academia, specifically the ocean through the Fellowship Program. agreements in place — two engineering program at URI, plays in There also have been seven Division Education Partnership Agreements preserving knowledge of technology Newport employees who have won (EPAs), two Cooperative Research across generations. the URI Distinguished Achievement & Development Agreements “Since the end of the Cold War, Award. (CRADAs) and one Partnership fields like ocean acoustics and sonar “One of the things that I do when Intermediary Agreement (PIA). have scraped along on bare I visit NUWC is I take a sample of These active agreements build on minimum funding because the nation research, and I ask people where a number of recent successes on didn’t need them,” Miller said. “But they went to school,” U.S. Sen. Jack which Division Newport and URI now, 30 years later, all of sudden the Reed (D-R.I.), one of the keynote have collaborated. Recently, Dr. Navy, its labs, and its defense speakers, said during the grand Robert Hernandez received the contractors need that knowledge.