{"id":244589,"date":"2026-04-24T11:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=244589"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:10:55","slug":"uconn-people-april-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/04\/uconn-people-april-29-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn People &#8211; April 29, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Award<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Jessica Flori<\/strong> and <strong>Dr. Pengyu Zong<\/strong>, UConn School of Medicine post-doctoral researchers, have received 2026 NIH Pathway to Independence Awards to advance their innovative research along with their careers as early-career scientists.<\/p>\n<p><em>In Memoriam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Horvath<\/strong>, 88, of Columbia, Conn., a retired human resources employee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Howlett<\/strong>, 72, a retired IT specialist, on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to submit a passing, retirement, notable birthday, achievement or a family event of a UConn employee or retiree for consideration, please email to work@uconn.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-244589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 08:28:09","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\/244589","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244590,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244589\/revisions\/244590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244589"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=244589"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=244589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}