{"id":145769,"date":"2023-10-26T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=145769"},"modified":"2023-10-26T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:34:55","slug":"engineer-runner-budding-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2023\/10\/26\/engineer-runner-budding-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineer, Runner, Budding Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Cross country and track standout shines on and off the course<\/h3>\n<p>Aksel Laudon (ENG&#8217;22, CAMED&#8217;26) was named Patriot League Indoor Track &amp; Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2023, and he finished first in the open 5K at the 2022 Battle in Beantown, with a time of 15:32.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Laudon made the dean\u2019s list all eight semesters of his undergraduate career, and was co-valedictorian of the Boston University College of Engineering Class of 2022. He&#8217;s worked on research including appendicitis diagnostic coding and investigating proteinuric kidney disease by studying patterns of protein expression in genetically modified mouse kidneys.<\/p>\n<p>Now in his final season of collegiate cross-country competition, Laudon is pursuing an MD at BU\u2019s Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read the full story at <\/strong><\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/cross-country-and-track-star-aksel-laudon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU Today<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Matt Woolverton<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriot League&#8217;s 2023 Indoor Track &#038; Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Aksel Laudon (ENG&#8217;22, CAMED&#8217;26) has been a standout on and off the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":145772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,982],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145775,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145769\/revisions\/145775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}