{"id":10781,"date":"2021-12-09T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T19:48:59","slug":"ufv-science-student-ken-ku-featured-in-ufv-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2021\/12\/09\/ufv-science-student-ken-ku-featured-in-ufv-today\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV Science Student, Ken Ku featured in UFV Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ken Ku,<\/strong> 4th-year science student featured in a recent article in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/\">UFV Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Ken Ku&#8217;s journey: from photography to formaldehyde<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ken Ku is set to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree (biology honours, chemistry minor) but that\u2019s not where university started for him.<\/p>\n<p>While Ken had a strong focus on science in high school, he was recruited to a US art school where he earned a degree in photography and print making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the right decision for me at the time and it allowed me to be a better writer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing that his real passion was in science, Ken returned home to Coquitlam and began his UFV journey into the sciences.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of Ken\u2019s first semester <strong>Dr. Golfam Ghafourifar<\/strong>, a UFV chemistry professor, was recruiting students interested in working in research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/blog\/2021\/12\/ken-kus-journey-from-photography-to-formaldehyde\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Ku, 4th-year science student featured in a recent article in UFV Today. Ken Ku&#8217;s journey: from photography to formaldehyde Ken Ku is set to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree (biology honours, chemistry minor) but that\u2019s not where university started for him. While Ken had a strong focus on science in high school, &#8230; <a title=\"UFV Science Student, Ken Ku featured in UFV Today\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2021\/12\/09\/ufv-science-student-ken-ku-featured-in-ufv-today\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":10783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[180,219,38],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-deans-office","tag-biology","tag-chemistry","tag-student-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10785,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}