{"id":50865,"date":"2023-05-23T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=50865"},"modified":"2023-06-07T09:11:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:11:07","slug":"utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC’s Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Emma

Emma Roy, the recipient of a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship, will be heading to Taiwan in June to study Chinese. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga rising junior Emma Roy has a career goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to sound crazy, but I\u2019ve always wanted to be a senator,\u201d said Roy, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in secondary education: political science. \u201cI have always wanted to get involved in politics, and I feel that being accepted into this program is going to be a catalyst for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roy has been selected for the 2023 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Chinese Program, an immersive summer opportunity for U.S. college and university students to learn languages essential to America\u2019s engagement with the world.<\/p>\n

An initiative of the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, students accepted into the CLS Program<\/a> spend eight to 10 weeks abroad studying one of 14 critical languages, with intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains.<\/p>\n

According to its website, the scholarship program is part of a broader U.S. government effort to significantly boost the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages crucial to national security and economic prosperity. More than 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students nationwide applied for the scholarship this year, with approximately 500 students from 245 institutions selected as finalists.<\/p>\n

Roy, a native of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is slated to study Chinese at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan, from June 20 through Aug. 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CLS Program is an intensive overseas immersion program, so it is the perfect opportunity to learn Chinese again\u2014or refresh everything that I\u2019ve learned through middle school and high school,\u201d said Roy, a 2021 graduate of The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hoping I\u2019ll just better my understanding of the language through this program. I want to bring back whatever I learn overseas\u2014the language, the culture, the life lessons that I\u2019m going to learn over there. I want to bring that back here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roy said she has been studying the Chinese language since she was in second grade\u2014and has previously traveled to China twice.<\/p>\n

Her stepfather, Dr. Michael Novak, was the director of the Confucius Institute at Middle Tennessee State University from 2014 until 2021 when that program was discontinued. Her stepdad and her mom, Jessica, are educators in the Rutherford (Tennessee) County Schools system.<\/p>\n

Roy doesn\u2019t envision following in their teaching footsteps, as her plan after graduating from UTC is to attend law school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure exactly what law school or where or necessarily what type of law I want to study,\u201d she said, \u201cbut I feel that with the Critical Language Scholarship Program, I\u2019m going to be able to meet a lot of people. If I have knowledge of Chinese in addition to my law degree, I will have a better advantage in getting involved in politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve been learning Chinese since second grade. My parents made me learn it because they understood the importance of the tension between the U.S. and China and how it\u2019s increased since the \u201970s.\u201d<\/p>\n

During her time at UTC, Roy has been a research assistant for Dr. Saeid Golkar in the Department of Political Science and Public Service and for the Institutional Review Board. She has also worked part-time as a childcare assistant for Hamilton County Schools, which she planned to continue this summer until learning of her acceptance into the CLS program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel like this is the beginning of my future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roy is the second UTC student selected for the award, joining Hannah Horton, who spent the summer of 2019 studying in Busan, South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rising junior Emma Roy, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in secondary education: political science, has been selected for the U.S. Department of State’s 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Chinese Program, an immersive summer opportunity for college and university students to learn languages essential to America\u2019s engagement with the world.<\/p>\n

Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1493,"featured_media":50875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12746,56,122493,8244,12745,12778,8288,661],"tags":[122780,122778,94158,122555,70270,122779],"class_list":{"0":"post-50865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brock-scholars-honors-college","8":"category-college-of-health-education-and-professional-studies","9":"category-education","10":"category-honors-and-awards","11":"category-honors-college-2","12":"category-political-science","13":"category-school-of-education","14":"category-students","15":"tag-critical-language-scholarship","16":"tag-emma-roy","17":"tag-hannah-horton","18":"tag-institutional-review-board","19":"tag-saeid-golkar","20":"tag-secondary-education-political-science","21":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\nUTC's Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan | UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rising junior Emma Roy, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in secondary education: political science, has been selected for the U.S. Department of State's 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Chinese Program, an immersive summer opportunity for college and university students to learn languages essential to America\u2019s engagement with the world.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UTC's Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan | UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rising junior Emma Roy, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in secondary education: political science, has been selected for the U.S. Department of State's 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Chinese Program, an immersive summer opportunity for college and university students to learn languages essential to America\u2019s engagement with the world.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTChattanooga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-23T15:16:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-07T13:11:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1597\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chuck Wasserstrom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UTChattanooga\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UTChattanooga\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chuck Wasserstrom\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chuck Wasserstrom\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ba12ddef664be78c31809fda10eae4e5\"},\"headline\":\"UTC’s Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-23T15:16:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-07T13:11:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":652,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/files\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Critical Language Scholarship\",\"Emma Roy\",\"hannah horton\",\"Institutional Review Board\",\"Saeid Golkar\",\"secondary education: political science\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Brock Scholars\",\"College of Health, Education and Professional Studies\",\"education\",\"Honors and Awards\",\"Honors College\",\"Political Science\",\"School of Education\",\"Students\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/\",\"name\":\"UTC's Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan | UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/files\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-23T15:16:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-07T13:11:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ba12ddef664be78c31809fda10eae4e5\"},\"description\":\"Rising junior Emma Roy, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in secondary education: political science, has been selected for the U.S. Department of State's 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Chinese Program, an immersive summer opportunity for college and university students to learn languages essential to America\u2019s engagement with the world.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/files\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/files\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":852,\"caption\":\"Emma Roy, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 outside of Guerry Center.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UTC’s Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\",\"description\":\"Official news releases of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ba12ddef664be78c31809fda10eae4e5\",\"name\":\"Chuck Wasserstrom\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/adff2964e628ba03f65fe21e0b0b94ca0667bdce5def0433d41884758501f284?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/adff2964e628ba03f65fe21e0b0b94ca0667bdce5def0433d41884758501f284?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/adff2964e628ba03f65fe21e0b0b94ca0667bdce5def0433d41884758501f284?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Chuck Wasserstrom\"},\"description\":\"Chuck Wasserstrom is the director of communications in the UTC Division of Communications and Marketing.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/author\\\/wyf557\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UTC's Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan | UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","description":"Rising junior Emma Roy, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in secondary education: political science, has been selected for the U.S. Department of State's 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Chinese Program, an immersive summer opportunity for college and university students to learn languages essential to America\u2019s engagement with the world.","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UTC's Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan | UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","og_description":"Rising junior Emma Roy, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in secondary education: political science, has been selected for the U.S. Department of State's 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Chinese Program, an immersive summer opportunity for college and university students to learn languages essential to America\u2019s engagement with the world.","og_url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/","og_site_name":"UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTChattanooga","article_published_time":"2023-05-23T15:16:26+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-06-07T13:11:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2400,"height":1597,"url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Chuck Wasserstrom","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@UTChattanooga","twitter_site":"@UTChattanooga","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Chuck Wasserstrom","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/"},"author":{"name":"Chuck Wasserstrom","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ba12ddef664be78c31809fda10eae4e5"},"headline":"UTC’s Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan","datePublished":"2023-05-23T15:16:26+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-07T13:11:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/"},"wordCount":652,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg","keywords":["Critical Language Scholarship","Emma Roy","hannah horton","Institutional Review Board","Saeid Golkar","secondary education: political science"],"articleSection":["Brock Scholars","College of Health, Education and Professional Studies","education","Honors and Awards","Honors College","Political Science","School of Education","Students"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/","url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/","name":"UTC's Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan | UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg","datePublished":"2023-05-23T15:16:26+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-07T13:11:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ba12ddef664be78c31809fda10eae4e5"},"description":"Rising junior Emma Roy, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in secondary education: political science, has been selected for the U.S. Department of State's 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Chinese Program, an immersive summer opportunity for college and university students to learn languages essential to America\u2019s engagement with the world.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg","width":1280,"height":852,"caption":"Emma Roy, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 outside of Guerry Center."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/utcs-emma-roy-awarded-prestigious-critical-language-scholarship-to-taiwan\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UTC’s Emma Roy awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to Taiwan"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/","name":"UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","description":"Official news releases of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ba12ddef664be78c31809fda10eae4e5","name":"Chuck Wasserstrom","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/adff2964e628ba03f65fe21e0b0b94ca0667bdce5def0433d41884758501f284?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/adff2964e628ba03f65fe21e0b0b94ca0667bdce5def0433d41884758501f284?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/adff2964e628ba03f65fe21e0b0b94ca0667bdce5def0433d41884758501f284?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Chuck Wasserstrom"},"description":"Chuck Wasserstrom is the director of communications in the UTC Division of Communications and Marketing.","url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/author\/wyf557\/"}]}},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Chuck Wasserstrom","author_link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/author\/wyf557\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Emma-Roy-23-548.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50865"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51274,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50865\/revisions\/51274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}