{"id":203426,"date":"2008-02-07T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=8771"},"modified":"2008-02-07T00:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T00:00:32","slug":"school-to-laud-distinguished-engineers-and-top-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2008\/02\/school-to-laud-distinguished-engineers-and-top-students\/","title":{"rendered":"School to Laud Distinguished Engineers and Top Students"},"content":{"rendered":"Outstanding alumni and student scholars will be honored during the School of Engineering’s annual banquet and awards ceremony on the evening of Wednesday, April 9 in the Lewis B. Rome ballroom located in the South Campus complex.<\/p>\n
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The evening brings together industrial sponsors and UConn School of Engineering alumni, friends, faculty and outstanding student scholars. A highlight of the evening is the induction of new members into the University’s Academy of Distinguished Engineers. Academy members are exceptional alumni selected from a pool of outstanding nominees. Top students also will be lauded with merit scholarships. In 2007, the School of Engineering awarded more than $550,000 in academic merit scholarships to continuing students and offered another $800,000 to students admitted to the School for the fall term. The scholarships are made possible through the generosity of corporate friends and alumni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Outstanding alumni and student scholars will be honored during the School of Engineering’s annual banquet and awards ceremony on the evening of Wednesday, April 9 in the Lewis B. Rome ballroom located in the South Campus complex. The evening brings together industrial sponsors and UConn School of Engineering alumni, friends, faculty and outstanding student scholars. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-203426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-20 20:53:08","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\/203426","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=203426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203426"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203426"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The evening brings together industrial sponsors and UConn School of Engineering alumni, friends, faculty and outstanding student scholars. A highlight of the evening is the induction of new members into the University’s Academy of Distinguished Engineers. Academy members are exceptional alumni selected from a pool of outstanding nominees. Top students also will be lauded with merit scholarships. In 2007, the School of Engineering awarded more than $550,000 in academic merit scholarships to continuing students and offered another $800,000 to students admitted to the School for the fall term. The scholarships are made possible through the generosity of corporate friends and alumni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"