{"id":12957,"date":"2012-09-04T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2025-01-30T21:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T02:39:48","slug":"engineering-alum-leading-multinational-clean-energy-efforts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/09\/engineering-alum-leading-multinational-clean-energy-efforts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Alum Leading Multinational Clean Energy Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/academy-gan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4272 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"academy-gan\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/academy-gan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"267\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 197px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 197\/267;\" \/><\/a>by Colin Poitras<\/p>\n<p>Zhongxue Gan \u201992 MS, \u201995 Ph.D. is chief scientist for one of China\u2019s largest renewable energy companies, which is committed to building stronger relationships between China and the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>It might be said that Zhongxue Gan\u2019s life as a scientist and researcher was preordained. After all, the very meaning of Zhongxue in Chinese is \u201cloyal to learning and study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is a mission Gan \u201992 MS, \u201995 Ph.D. takes seriously, and one that has propelled him from the farmlands of northern China\u2019s Hebei province into the laboratories of UConn\u2019s School of Engineering and ultimately, to his current post as chief scientist for one of China\u2019s largest renewable energy companies.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/blog\/2012\/08\/engineering-alum-leading-multinational-clean-energy-efforts\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Today recently profiled alumnus Zhongxue Gan, chief scientist for one of China&#8217;s largest renewable energy companies, ENN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":223957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[63],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 08:15:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224806,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions\/224806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/223957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}