{"id":991,"date":"2017-12-28T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/?page_id=991"},"modified":"2019-05-28T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:12:37","slug":"flagship-scholars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/flagship-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagship Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/lauren-buchholz\/\">Lauren Buchholz<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201cAnyone can study Chinese if they are willing to put in the time; the language simply requires a lot of contact hours to master.\u201d For Lauren Buchholz, the path into the Chinese Language Flagship program had a few twists and turns. She was pursuing a major in Economics and Political Science with a minor in [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/emily-hadfield\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1519\/Emily-Hadfield-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Emily Hadfield\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1519\/Emily-Hadfield-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1519\/Emily-Hadfield-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/emily-hadfield\/\">Emily Hadfield<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">After Emily finishes her capstone year in China, she begins a  job with the Newton, Massachusetts admission consultancy firm, AcceptU, as a bilingual marketing associate. \u201cIt is perfect for me because I will spend 90% of my time speaking Chinese,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/samuel-browne\/\">Samuel Browne<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sam, now a process engineer in the Rhode Island location of Teknor Apex, says that many people speak English in multinational companies, so basic communication isn\u2019t a challenge, but knowing someone's native language means that you can communicate on a deeper level.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/andrew-champagne\/\">Andrew Champagne<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Andrew is an IT Project Manager and software developer for Adomi Limited. He works directly with clients and CEOs from Asia to translate their ideas into a roadmap for a team of developers and engineers. <\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/olivia-hallam\/\">Olivia Hallam<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Flagship program has enabled Olivia to regain her original language and pursue a Master\u2019s Degree in nonproliferation and terrorism studies, with a concentration in Chinese at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1265,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-991","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/991\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chineseflagship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}