{"id":10752,"date":"2023-06-05T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2023-06-05T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:16:09","slug":"uri-faculty-named-a-chevalier-in-the-ordre-des-palmes-academiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/uri-faculty-named-a-chevalier-in-the-ordre-des-palmes-academiques\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Faculty named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes acad\u00e9miques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Karen de Bruin, Professor of French and Director of the Honors Program, for being named a chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes acad\u00e9miques! The distinction, which is French for &#8220;knight&#8221; in the &#8220;Order of Academic Palms&#8221; is France&#8217;s highest honor granted to academics for valuable service in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Bruin has been at URI since 2007 and among her many contributions she has co-founded the International Studies &amp; Diplomacy program, is the founder and director of the URI-Universit\u00e9 de Rennes consortium exchange, and brought French playwright Jean-Ren\u00e9 Lemoine to the university in 2018. The title of chevalier, which is one of the oldest civil honors awarded by the Republic of France, acknowledges de Bruin&#8217;s mission to introduce the nature of French thinking while students are learning the language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more about de Bruin&#8217;s work, check out Kristen Curry&#8217;s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/uris-karen-de-bruin-named-chevalier-of-the-order-of-the-academic-palms\/?fbclid=IwAR0ivhTtb_Acz129z8n2vffXEmfX4fexqILZPpWuIbl5GRqr6rMzstN7Bnc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karen de Bruin<\/strong><br \/>\nModern and Classical Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10754,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions\/10754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}