{"id":388884,"date":"2023-04-06T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=388884"},"modified":"2023-04-06T06:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T20:06:26","slug":"saipans-leong-is-named-2022-23-rit-outstanding-undergraduate-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipans-leong-is-named-2022-23-rit-outstanding-undergraduate-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan\u2019s Leong is named 2022-23 RIT Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, NY\u2014Giselle Ivy C. Leong of Saipan in the Northern Marianas Islands has been named as an Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year at the Rochester Institute of Technology, joining more than 100 students on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Leong is in the graphic design program.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1976, RIT has honored the top 1% of undergraduate students\u00a0who achieve academic excellence while also giving back to the community through civic or volunteer work, by conducting research, or being engaged in a co-op or work in their field of study.<\/p>\n<p>Award recipients were honored during a celebration on March 23.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1829, RIT enrolls about 19,700 students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, making it among the largest private universities in the U.S. <em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, NY\u2014Giselle Ivy C. Leong of Saipan in the Northern Marianas Islands has been named&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":388885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388884","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=388884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}