{"id":16456,"date":"2021-12-28T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=16456"},"modified":"2023-01-11T18:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T23:49:35","slug":"cindy-hu-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/cindy-hu-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Former STEEP trainee Cindy Hu awarded \u201cWomen in Science Incentive Prize\u201d to continue work focused on climate change and the water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-third_column wp-image-16457\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cindy-Hu_Award_Image-364x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cindy-Hu_Award_Image-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cindy-Hu_Award_Image-133x133.jpg 133w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cindy-Hu_Award_Image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cindy-Hu_Award_Image-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cindy-Hu_Award_Image.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/>Cindy Hu is one of five winners of the first annual Women In Science Incentive Prize. Created in celebration of its 10th anniversary,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/about-us\/\">The Story Exchange<\/a> announced the winners of this new grant program that recognizes innovative female scientists working in the area of climate change mitigation and adaptation.&nbsp;Cindy researches PFAS \u2013 \u201cforever chemicals\u201d \u2013 and their impact on drinking water supplies. She is the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/Whatisinmywater.org\">Whatisinmywater.org<\/a> and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she served as a STEEP trainee and completed her Ph.D. in spring 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/announcing-winners-women-in-science-incentive-prize\"><strong>Read the full story<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Hu is one of five winners of the first annual Women In Science Incentive Prize. Created in celebration of its 10th anniversary, The Story Exchange announced the winners of this new grant program that recognizes innovative female scientists working in the area of climate change mitigation and adaptation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":16457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16463,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions\/16463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}