{"id":11219,"date":"2026-10-06T14:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=11219"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:05:32","slug":"grant-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/10\/06\/grant-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;My favorite part of research is being able to talk to so many different people and learn about the awesome science that they&#8217;re doing. It was great that I was able to talk to the graduate students in my lab and other REU students since that gave me an opportunity to learn about my lab&#8217;s research more in-depth and other lab&#8217;s research more broadly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Learn more about Grant&#8217;s research!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1233463004?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"REU Interview with Grant Baker\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/archive\/past-participants\/' class='button button-tertiary'>More Participants<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My favorite part of research is being able to talk to so many different people and learn about the awesome science that they&#8217;re doing. It was great that I was able to talk to the graduate students in my lab and other REU students since that gave me an opportunity to learn about my lab&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11601,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}