{"id":7011,"date":"2023-08-10T13:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:22:02","slug":"marla-rhuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2023\/08\/10\/marla-rhuma\/","title":{"rendered":"Marla Rhuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2023\/12\/MarlaRhuma_LabHeadshot-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"243\" class=\"wp-image-2361 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2023\/12\/MarlaRhuma_LabHeadshot-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2023\/12\/MarlaRhuma_LabHeadshot-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2023\/12\/MarlaRhuma_LabHeadshot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2023\/12\/MarlaRhuma_LabHeadshot-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/files\/2023\/12\/MarlaRhuma_LabHeadshot-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Originally born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Marla Rhuma moved to the Dorchester area when she was 11, and later moved outside of Boston for school. She always felt called to teaching, and eventually obtained a position as a physics teacher at East Boston High School. Marla has found joy in her work helping students understand difficult problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Summer 2024<\/h3>\n<p>Marla was mentored by Noelle Pierce in the Bishop Lab where they worked on Creating and Optimizing Anisotropic Scaffolds for Cell Study.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1159870615?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\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"2024 RET Interview with Marla Rhuma\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Summer 2023<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This summer, Marla worked with Will Boley and Kayla Wolfe in the\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/automated-hybrid-manufacturing-of-electrical-objects\/\" class=\"editor-rtfLink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Boley Lab<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0to integrate 3D printing and pick-and-place functionalities into an assembly robot used by REUs. This work enabled students to gain hands-on, multifaceted experience in hybrid automated manufacturing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Marla Rhuma moved to the Dorchester area when she was 11, and later moved outside of Boston for school. She always felt called to teaching, and eventually obtained a position as a physics teacher at East Boston High School. Marla has found joy in her work helping students understand difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22341,"featured_media":10025,"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\/7011"}],"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\/22341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10460,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/10460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}