{"id":9189,"date":"2011-07-21T14:58:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2011-07-22T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:55:18","slug":"laursen-fund-halfway-to-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/2011\/07\/21\/laursen-fund-halfway-to-endowment\/","title":{"rendered":"Laursen Fund Halfway to Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9190\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_then.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9190 \" title=\"Professor Richard Laursen Then\" src=\"\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_then-407x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Richard Laursen Then\" width=\"195\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_then-407x300.jpg 407w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_then-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_then.jpg 1647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_now.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9191 \" title=\"Professor Richard Laursen Now\" src=\"\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_now-412x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Richard Laursen Now\" width=\"198\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_now-412x300.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_now-1024x744.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/07\/professor_rich_laursen_now.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Richard Laursen Then &amp; Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/people\/faculty\/laursen\/\" target=\"_self\">Professor Emeritus Richard Laursen<\/a> retired in 2009, his students and colleagues wanted  to recognize his 43 years of excellent research, teaching, and mentoring by establishing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/alumni\/donate\/laursen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laursen Fund<\/a> in his honor.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/alumni\/donate\/laursen\/\">goal is to raise $100,000<\/a>.\u00a0 We are now halfway to meeting that goal.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Chemistry alumnus Luis Ruzo (CAS 1970), a former Laursen undergraduate, the fund will help provide an annual summer research stipend for a graduate or undergraduate student from candidates nominated by their advisors.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his exceptional mentoring, Rich Laursen, who is still actively pursuing his research interests in Chemistry, would very much like to see the capital grow so that the interest can annually support the training and nurturing of exceptional young scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Professor Emeritus Richard Laursen retired in 2009, his students and colleagues wanted to recognize his 43 years of excellent research, teaching, and mentoring by establishing the Laursen Fund in his honor. The goal is to raise $100,000.\u00a0 We are now halfway to meeting that goal. Led by Chemistry alumnus Luis Ruzo (CAS 1970), a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82,997,1277,5043],"tags":[5045,5046,9213,5047,5044,9212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9235,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions\/9235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}