{"id":23743,"date":"2024-10-14T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=23743"},"modified":"2024-10-01T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:57:16","slug":"update-from-former-vrg-scholarship-winner-and-intern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/14\/update-from-former-vrg-scholarship-winner-and-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Former VRG Scholarship Winner and Intern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/callie_photo-Callie-Showalter-225x300-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/callie_photo-Callie-Showalter-225x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Callie Showalter<\/p>\n<p>School is going very well. I\u2019m in my third year at Smith now and am an environmental science major, so I\u2019m preparing to research and write a senior thesis next year about the environmental and social impacts\u00a0of factory farming in the US. I also live in a vegetarian\/vegan food co-op on Smith\u2019s campus and we cook entirely-vegan dinners every night of the week. This summer <a href=\"https:\/\/steps-center.org\/2024-reu-participants\/\">I did a research internship<\/a> at North Carolina State University and researched some of the environmental impacts of animal farming (ie, how manure impacts groundwater quality). I am still so grateful for my time with The Vegetarian Resource Group and the scholarship I got from the VRG as well! Hopefully my pursuits are of some interest to you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: <\/em>More information about applying to VRG scholarships and internships can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/index.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Support of VRG scholarships and internships can be made at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/donate\">www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Callie Showalter School is going very well. I\u2019m in my third year at Smith now and am an environmental science major, so I\u2019m preparing to research and write a senior thesis next year about the environmental and social impacts\u00a0of factory farming in the US. I also live in a vegetarian\/vegan food co-op on Smith\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23745,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions\/23745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}