{"id":5486,"date":"2017-04-21T19:18:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2017-04-21T19:20:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T19:20:49","slug":"liysf2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2017\/04\/21\/liysf2017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Perrin Waldock and Tessa Webb off to London, UK this summer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5496\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Rebecca.Robertson.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5496\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Rebecca.Robertson.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Rebecca.Robertson.png 376w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Rebecca.Robertson-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Rebecca.Robertson-124x150.png 124w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Rebecca.Robertson-165x200.png 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Robertson &#8220;Puzzles &amp; Algorithms&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On March 29th our shortlisted candidates presented their research topic of choice to a large audience including the Faculty of Science selection panel. All 3 presentations were spectacular which made for a difficult decision for our panel!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5489\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Perrin.Waldock.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5489\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Perrin.Waldock-275x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Perrin.Waldock-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Perrin.Waldock-137x150.png 137w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Perrin.Waldock-183x200.png 183w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Perrin.Waldock.png 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perrin Waldock &#8220;Droning on about Drones&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are excited to announce that Perrin Waldock and Tessa Webb were selected to represent UFV at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liysf.org.uk\/liysf\/liysf-2017\/\">2017 London International Youth Science Forum <\/a>to be held in London, UK this summer. They will be joining 500 of the world&#8217;s leading young scientists from more than 75 participating countries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5490\" style=\"width: 166px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Tess.Webb_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5490\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Tess.Webb_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Tess.Webb_.png 424w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Tess.Webb_-253x300.png 253w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Tess.Webb_-126x150.png 126w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/04\/Tess.Webb_-169x200.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tessa Webb &#8220;Bioremediation&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year&#8217;s forum theme will be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liysf.org.uk\/liysf\/liysf-2017\/\">Science &#8211; Making Life Better<\/a>&#8220;. Perrin and Tessa will be immersed into an international community exchanging ideas and experiences.\u00a0 They will have the opportunity to visit industrial sites, research centres, scientific institutions and organizations, including world class research institutions and laboratories. All participants will also join in a program of lectures, seminars, debates and discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations! You both will represent UFV with pride!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liysf.org.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2868\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/01\/liysf-1-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/01\/liysf-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/01\/liysf-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/01\/liysf-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/01\/liysf-1-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/01\/liysf-1-250x250.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ufv.ca\/faculty_of_science\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5294\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo.png 731w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-150x68.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-200x91.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 29th our shortlisted candidates presented their research topic of choice to a large audience including the Faculty of Science selection panel. All 3 presentations were spectacular which made for a difficult decision for our panel! We are excited to announce that Perrin Waldock and Tessa Webb were selected to represent UFV at the &#8230; <a title=\"Perrin Waldock and Tessa Webb off to London, UK this summer!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2017\/04\/21\/liysf2017-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,20,21,169,5,58,9,6,114,1],"tags":[180,105,115,74,38],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-deans-office","category-engineering","category-events","category-feature","category-mathstats","category-news","category-physical-geography","category-physics","category-science-in-london","category-uncategorized","tag-biology","tag-engineering-2","tag-liysf","tag-math","tag-student-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","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=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions\/5514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}