{"id":9687,"date":"2020-06-09T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=9687"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:01:57","slug":"professor-dennis-nixon-awarded-degree-of-doctor-of-laws-honoris-causa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2020\/06\/09\/professor-dennis-nixon-awarded-degree-of-doctor-of-laws-honoris-causa\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Dennis Nixon awarded Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Professor Dennis Nixon on being awarded with the degree of <em>Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa<\/em> from Roger Williams School of Law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Nixon has been the Director of the Rhode Island Sea Grant Program since 2013 whilst teaching Marine Affairs courses such as Coastal Zone Law and Marine &amp; Coastal Law. Professor Nixon is known in the department for his incredibly knowledgable and engaging lectures as well as his many experiences in the Marine Affairs field. Congratulations Professor Nixon!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9696\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-08-at-1.38.17-PM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>For more information on Professor Nixon and this honor, be sure to look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/seagrant.gso.uri.edu\/sea-grant-director-receives-honorary-degree\/\">Rhode Island Sea Grant page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Professor Dennis Nixon on being awarded with the degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa from Roger Williams School of Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3710,"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":[11],"tags":[231,210],"class_list":["post-9687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alumni","tag-dennis-nixon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9795,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions\/9795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}