{"id":2742,"date":"2026-09-17T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:55:18","slug":"cypher-faculty-and-students-featured-in-presidents-welcome-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/cypher-faculty-and-students-featured-in-presidents-welcome-message\/","title":{"rendered":"CYPHER Faculty and Students Featured in President&#8217;s Welcome Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the 2026-2027 academic year begins and students arrive at campus, URI President Marc Parlange published his annual video message welcoming both new and returning members of the University community. The work of CYPHER faculty and students appeared several times within the video, highlighting the message&#8217;s theme of research momentum at the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the video, faculty member Reza Abiri is seen assisting a student operating a robotic arm. Student Ved Patel is also seen working on the lab&#8217;s Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), part of a research project involving fellow students Anissa Elias, Aryana Sadr, and Zack Notarianni.<\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-video-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-video  \"><div class=\"poster\" id=\"jjq7qmRmhRg\" data-video=\"jjq7qmRmhRg\" data-platform=\"youtube\" data-showinfo=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/jjq7qmRmhRg\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"The President's 2026-2027 welcome video.\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2026-2027 academic year begins and students arrive at campus, URI President Marc Parlange published his annual video message welcoming both new and returning members of the University community. The work of CYPHER faculty and students appeared several times within the video, highlighting the message&#8217;s theme of research momentum at the University. During the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5563,"featured_media":2745,"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-2742","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\/2742","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\/5563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cypher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}