{"id":6992,"date":"2024-08-08T17:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:54:20","slug":"lea-hebert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2024\/08\/08\/lea-hebert\/","title":{"rendered":"Lea Hebert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/01\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Lea-001-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/01\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Lea-001-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/01\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Lea-001-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/01\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Lea-001-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/01\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Lea-001-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/01\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Lea-001-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born and raised in Costa Rica, Lea Hebert is now a junior at Grambling State University studying Biology. From doing experiments with her little sister as a child to studying Biomechanics in college, she has always been passionate about using science to help others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summer, Lea worked in the Tissue Microfabrication Lab under PI Christopher Chen on post-heart attack healing of the heart through engraftments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lea plans to apply to dental school following her undergraduate education.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\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\/1046528830?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\" title=\"REU 2025 - Lea Herbert\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in Costa Rica, Lea Hebert is now a junior at Grambling State University studying Biology. From doing experiments with her little sister as a child to studying Biomechanics in college, she has always been passionate about using science to help others. This summer, Lea worked in the Tissue Microfabrication Lab under PI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992"}],"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=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9261,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions\/9261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}