{"id":300,"date":"2014-12-23T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/programming\/?p=300"},"modified":"2014-12-23T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:38:49","slug":"a-celebration-of-the-life-and-work-of-the-late-leo-f-dimaio-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/a-celebration-of-the-life-and-work-of-the-late-leo-f-dimaio-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration of the Life and Work of the Late Leo F. DiMaio Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #002147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/advance.uri.edu\/programming\/email\/interdepartmental\/images\/140730_DiMaio.jpg\" alt=\"DiMaio\" width=\"185\" height=\"278\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" \/><strong>Leo DiMaio<\/strong>\u00a0won the respect and friendship of his colleagues and students as director of URI\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #002147\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/talentdevelopment\/\">Talent Development<\/a>\u00a0Program from 1980 to 1998. He dedicated his life and career to advancing the cause of expanding educational opportunity for students of color and disadvantaged students. A celebration\u00a0of his life and work was held on Saturday, October 18, 2014 in the Memorial Union Ballroom on URI&#8217;s Kingston Campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #002147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/advance.uri.edu\/programming\/events\/interdepartmental\/images\/140924_DiMaio1.jpg\" alt=\"DiMaio Event\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #002147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/advance.uri.edu\/programming\/events\/interdepartmental\/images\/140924_DiMaio2.jpg\" alt=\"DiMaio Event\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo DiMaio\u00a0won the respect and friendship of his colleagues and students as director of URI\u2019s\u00a0Talent Development\u00a0Program from 1980 to 1998. He dedicated his life and career to advancing the cause of expanding educational opportunity for students of color and disadvantaged students. A celebration\u00a0of his life and work was held on Saturday, October 18, 2014 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/university-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}