{"id":1167,"date":"2023-03-17T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2023-03-17T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T15:06:43","slug":"we-need-blind-scientists-northeastern-professor-tells-united-nations-about-her-unseen-advantage-in-inspirational-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/we-need-blind-scientists-northeastern-professor-tells-united-nations-about-her-unseen-advantage-in-inspirational-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need blind scientists.\u2019 Northeastern professor tells United Nations about her \u2018unseen advantage\u2019 in inspirational speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world needs more scientists with \u201cthe unseen advantage,\u201d says Mona Minkara, assistant professor of bioengineering and affiliate faculty of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1168\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Mona-Minkara-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"mona minkara headshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Mona-Minkara-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Mona-Minkara-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Mona-Minkara-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Mona-Minkara.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"btn bg--red --lg\" href=\"https:\/\/cos.northeastern.edu\/news\/we-need-blind-scientists-northeastern-professor-tells-united-nations-about-her-unseen-advantage-in-inspirational-speech\/#:~:text=need%20blind%20scientists.-,'%20Northeastern%20professor%20tells%20United%20Nations%20about%20her,unseen%20advantage'%20in%20inspirational%20speech&amp;text=The%20world%20needs%20more%20scientists,and%20chemical%20biology%20at%20Northeastern.\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world needs more scientists with \u201cthe unseen advantage,\u201d says Mona Minkara, assistant professor of bioengineering and affiliate faculty of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-success","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}