{"id":2479,"date":"2025-05-14T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:20:43","slug":"celebrating-dr-ken-yang-a-legacy-of-scholarship-and-student-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/celebrating-dr-ken-yang-a-legacy-of-scholarship-and-student-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Dr. Ken Yang: A Legacy of Scholarship and Student Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As part of the University of Rhode Island\u2019s annual celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the Multicultural Student Services Center (MSSC) honored <strong>Professor Qing (Ken) Yang<\/strong> for his exceptional leadership, generosity, and lasting contributions to the university community. A longtime faculty member in the <strong>College of Engineering<\/strong> and a founding force behind the <strong>CYPHER Center<\/strong>, Dr. Yang was recognized at the May 1 celebration for his enduring commitment to student success and academic excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through his generous sponsorship, several student scholarships were awarded\u2014highlighting his dedication to uplifting future generations of scholars. Dr. Yang\u2019s example reminds us of the transformative role faculty play in shaping a more inclusive, connected, and forward-thinking academic environment at URI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1qzcfBh5duDN2fdrQugvtnQCWQrtjMKFP\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/qBtn1sJx\/Ken-Yang-AAPI-Award-2025.png\" alt=\"Watch the video\" width=\"360\">\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the University of Rhode Island\u2019s annual celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the Multicultural Student Services Center (MSSC) honored Professor Qing (Ken) Yang for his exceptional leadership, generosity, and lasting contributions to the university community. A longtime faculty member in the College of Engineering and a founding force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5280,"featured_media":2484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}