{"id":85,"date":"2026-08-16T14:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:41:50","slug":"news-and-announcements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/news-and-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"News and Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>September 2026: <\/strong> Welcome to Ardalan Soleymani Ashtiani, who has joined the lab as a Ph.D. student! Ardalan earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Azad University in Iran, with focuses in Thermo-Fluids and Energy Conversion, respectively. He also has extensive experience in industry, as both a mechanical engineer and an artisan specializing in gem cutting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2026: Welcome to Ardalan Soleymani Ashtiani, who has joined the lab as a Ph.D. student! Ardalan earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Azad University in Iran, with focuses in Thermo-Fluids and Energy Conversion, respectively. He also has extensive experience in industry, as both a mechanical engineer and an artisan specializing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4861,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/melemed-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}