{"id":2686,"date":"2025-05-26T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2025-05-26T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:44:24","slug":"congratulations-dr-rivera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/news\/2025\/congratulations-dr-rivera\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dr. Rivera!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Group member <a id=\"ember3929\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lucille-verster-rivera\/\">Lucille Verster Rivera<\/a> successfully defended her PhD dissertation on \u201cUnraveling the Degradation Mechanisms and Screening of Microplastic Release from Synthetic and Biobased Polymer Materials\u201d. She was co-advised with Dr. Lokendra Pal. Throughout her PhD, <a id=\"ember3930\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lucille-verster-rivera\/\">Lucille<\/a> achieved significant milestones by working on several projects and collaborating with many research groups. <a id=\"ember3931\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lucille-verster-rivera\/\">Lucille<\/a> effectively represented the Velev group at several national conferences and symposiums.<br \/><br \/>As <a id=\"ember3932\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lucille-verster-rivera\/\">Lucille<\/a> starts her new corporate journey with BASF, we wish her the very best in all her future endeavors. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2687\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/05\/Lucille-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/05\/Lucille-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/05\/Lucille-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/05\/Lucille-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/05\/Lucille-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/05\/Lucille-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group member Lucille Verster Rivera successfully defended her PhD dissertation on \u201cUnraveling the Degradation Mechanisms and Screening of Microplastic Release from Synthetic and Biobased Polymer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":2687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"first_name":[],"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}