{"id":2849,"date":"2026-03-06T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:55:13","slug":"congratulations-dr-hong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/news\/2026\/congratulations-dr-hong\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Dr. Hong!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Group member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/haeleen-hong-510855204\/\">Haeleen Hong<\/a> successfully defended her PhD dissertation on \u201cBio-inspired Design of Active Soft Matter Microcleaners or Broad-Spectrum Microplastics Capture and Removal\u201d. Throughout her PhD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/haeleen-hong-510855204\/\">Haeleen<\/a> achieved significant milestones by working on several projects and collaborating with other research groups. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/haeleen-hong-510855204\/\">Haeleen<\/a> effectively represented the Velev group at several conferences and symposiums and mentored many undergraduate students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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-2851\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Haeleen-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Haeleen-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Haeleen-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Haeleen-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Haeleen-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Haeleen-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group member Haeleen Hong successfully defended her PhD dissertation on \u201cBio-inspired Design of Active Soft Matter Microcleaners or Broad-Spectrum Microplastics Capture and Removal\u201d. Throughout her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":2851,"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-2849","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\/2849","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=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}