{"id":2698,"date":"2016-01-04T09:40:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2016-01-18T13:20:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:20:27","slug":"asking-the-audacious-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2016\/01\/04\/asking-the-audacious-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking the Audacious Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Fall Farmingdale was awarded an extremely competitive and prestigious \u201cFirst in the World\u201d grant from the US Department of Education.\u00a0 As just one of 17 winners in a nation-wide competition, the College will use the $2.9 million award to implement an ambitious effort to improve the learning experiences and graduation rates of our students.<\/p>\n<p>The most distinctive aspect of FSC\u2019s grant-funded RAM (Research Aligned Mentorship) program is that it will place students and their faculty mentors in hands-on research experiences both on campus and off campus in national laboratories, research universities, business accelerators, and other research venues.<\/p>\n<p>In October, to kick off this ambitious effort, Dr. Nancy Hensel, past president of the Council of Undergraduate Research, gave a keynote address at Farmingdale titled: \u201cEngaging Students in Undergraduate Research.\u201d\u00a0 That presentation can be viewed on our First in the World website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmingdale.edu\/fitw\/ramyoutube.shtml\">http:\/\/www.farmingdale.edu\/fitw\/ramyoutube.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0l8Cu2HcxOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Fall Farmingdale was awarded an extremely competitive and prestigious \u201cFirst in the World\u201d grant from the US Department of Education.\u00a0 As just one of 17 winners in a nation-wide competition, the College will use the $2.9 million award to implement an ambitious effort to improve the learning experiences and graduation rates of our students. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}