{"id":1703,"date":"2026-03-28T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:45:16","slug":"uri-welcome-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/uri-welcome-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Welcome Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>March 28, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lab members (Dr. Chang, faculty representative; Kitara Pottebaum, student ambassador; Ramin Safari, volunteer) joined URI Welcome Day to represent the Ocean Engineering Department. We spoke with prospective students and their families and showed them the beautiful Bay Campus and planned OE facilities. Hope to see some of them again in the future!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1710\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/URI_WelcomeDay3-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1710\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1709\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/URI_WelcomeDay2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1709\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 28, 2026 Lab members (Dr. Chang, faculty representative; Kitara Pottebaum, student ambassador; Ramin Safari, volunteer) joined URI Welcome Day to represent the Ocean Engineering Department. We spoke with prospective students and their families and showed them the beautiful Bay Campus and planned OE facilities. Hope to see some of them again in the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5030,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}