{"id":280025,"date":"2018-07-16T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=280025"},"modified":"2018-07-16T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T20:06:09","slug":"uog-graduate-student-selected-for-marine-policy-fellowship-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-graduate-student-selected-for-marine-policy-fellowship-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG graduate student selected for Marine Policy Fellowship in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_280026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280026\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Knauss-pix-Knauss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Knauss-pix-Knauss-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-280026\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-280026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Swaddell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Guam native has been selected for the first time as a finalist for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, a one-year fellowship in which participants gain hands-on experience at host government offices in Washington, D.C., transferring science to policy and management. Lauren Swaddell, a graduate student studying environmental science at the University of Guam, was one of 66 finalists announced on July 11.<\/p>\n<p>Finalists were chosen through a highly competitive process that included several rounds of review at both the local and national levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very proud of Ms. Swaddell as she enters this prestigious fellowship, and we&#8217;re pleased that the National Sea Grant College Program continues to support the growth and success of UOG Sea Grant,&#8221; said UOG president Robert A. Underwood.<\/p>\n<p>Swadell will travel to Washington, D.C., this fall to interview with executive or legislative offices. She will begin her one-year appointment in February.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m honored to be selected as Guam\u2019s first Knauss fellow, and I\u2019m looking forward to the valuable experience I will gain to make a difference for our island,\u201d Swaddell said.<\/p>\n<p>She will be joining finalists representing 30 of the 33 Sea Grant programs across the nation to comprise the 40th class of the fellowship program.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1979, the National Sea Grant College Program has provided more than 1,200 early-career professionals with one-year fellowships in federal government offices in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Swaddell also serves as a graduate research assistant at UOG Sea Grant and the UOG Center for Island Sustainability. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in environmental studies from Hunter College City University of New York. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guam native has been selected for the first time as a finalist for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":280026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,21946,313,445],"class_list":["post-280025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-lauren-swaddell","tag-new-york","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}