{"id":61973,"date":"2011-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-honor-winners-of-gandhi-essay-contest-may-3\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-honor-winners-of-gandhi-essay-contest-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/05\/uri-to-honor-winners-of-gandhi-essay-contest-may-3\/","title":{"rendered":"URI to honor winners of Gandhi Essay Contest May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHO: Six winning eighth grade essayists and their parents from Westerly, East Greenwich, Providence and East Providence, Paul Bueno de Mesquita, URI professor of psychology and director of URI\u2019s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, and Ruby Roy Dholakia, marketing professor in URI\u2019s College of Business Administration and coordinator of the URI Honors Colloquium of two years ago, \u201cDemystifying India.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHAT: Ceremony to honor winners of URI\u2019s first Gandhi Essay Contest.  Students were asked to write no more than 750 words on Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s written note to a reporter, \u201cMy life is my message.\u201d  They were asked to describe how their lives could be examples of living in peace and nonviolence or how they could make the world a better place.  One hundred nineteen eighth graders submitted essays.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHEN: Tuesday, May 3, 5 to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHERE: URI Multicultural Center, Kingston Campus, 74 Lower College Road<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTO MAKE COVERAGE ARRANGEMENTS: Call Dave Lavallee at 401-874-5862.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; WHO: Six winning eighth grade essayists and their parents from Westerly, East Greenwich, Providence and East Providence, Paul Bueno de Mesquita, URI professor of psychology and director of URI\u2019s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, and Ruby Roy Dholakia, marketing professor in URI\u2019s College of Business Administration and coordinator of the URI Honors Colloquium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}