{"id":3063,"date":"2016-04-08T15:44:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2016-04-08T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:44:38","slug":"congratulations-vivienne-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2016\/04\/08\/congratulations-vivienne-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Vivienne Beard! LIYSF 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3067\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/04\/Vivienne-Beard-2016-LIYSF-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vivienne Beard 2016 LIYSF\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/04\/Vivienne-Beard-2016-LIYSF-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/04\/Vivienne-Beard-2016-LIYSF-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/04\/Vivienne-Beard-2016-LIYSF-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/04\/Vivienne-Beard-2016-LIYSF.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>The Faculty of Science is excited to announce that <strong>Vivienne Beard<\/strong> has been selected to represent UFV at the 58th London International Youth Science Forum this summer! She&#8217;ll be joining the world&#8217;s leading young scientists from more than 65 participating countries. For two weeks, she&#8217;ll be immersed in an international community exchanging ideas and experiences to fulfill the aim of the Science Forum &#8220;to give a greater insight into science and its application for the benefit of all mankind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vivienne&#8217;s academic goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After graduating from UFV with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and an extended minor in Psychology, my goal is to attend Medical School. In addition to completing an MD degree, I hope to become involved in Medical research. Currently, I am very interested in cancer genomics, pharmacogenomics, and the emerging field of personalized medicine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have no doubt that Vivienne will represent our university with pride!<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the London International Youth Science Forum please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liysf.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.liysf.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Science is excited to announce that Vivienne Beard has been selected to represent UFV at the 58th London International Youth Science Forum this summer! She&#8217;ll be joining the world&#8217;s leading young scientists from more than 65 participating countries. For two weeks, she&#8217;ll be immersed in an international community exchanging ideas and experiences &#8230; <a title=\"Congratulations to Vivienne Beard! LIYSF 2016\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2016\/04\/08\/congratulations-vivienne-beard\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":3067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,58,114,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-deans-office","category-news","category-science-in-london","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","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=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/3070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}