{"id":308,"date":"2021-05-24T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/?p=308"},"modified":"2021-05-24T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:13:26","slug":"uri-advisor-advisee-awarded-fulbright-fellowships-to-conduct-research-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/uri-advisor-advisee-awarded-fulbright-fellowships-to-conduct-research-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"URI advisor, advisee awarded Fulbright Fellowships to conduct research abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"type-intro\">University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor Elizabeth Mendenhall has been advising graduate student Eliya Baron Lopez for two years, and they developed a close working relationship as they studied marine plastic pollution in the ocean and issues of marine policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the two have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships to continue their research at opposite sides of the world, Mendenhall in Iceland and Baron Lopez in South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe talked about the Fulbright together, we learned about it together, and we got excited about it together,\u201d said Mendenhall. \u201cWe both see a little of ourselves in each other. We celebrate each other\u2019s victories, and getting a Fulbright is quite a victory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  block-level\" href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/uri-advisor-advisee-awarded-fulbright-fellowships-to-conduct-research-abroad\/\" title=\"\">URI press release<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Elizabeth Mendenhall will travel to Iceland to teach and research at the University of Akureyri and Eliya Baron Lopez will study South Korea\u2019s strategies for managing marine litter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":224,"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-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fulbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}