{"id":204,"date":"2011-11-11T22:16:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T03:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/11\/1021\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:46:02","slug":"1021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/1021\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman students at APEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1022\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/apec-2011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1022 lazyload\" title=\"apec-2011\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/apec-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"234\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 339px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 339\/234;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year&#39;s APEC conference is taking place in Hawaii.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Four Furman students and two professors are currently in Hawaii for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.\u00a0 As part of their duties at the conference, the students attended a meeting of the APEC Forum Finance Ministers hosted by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.\u00a0 The Furman students are participating in the conference through a program organized by APEC Voices of the Future.<\/p>\n<p>The students in Hawaii this week, who are accompanied by Furman professors Cleve Fraser (Political Science) and Ken Peterson (Economics), are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katie Fearington<\/strong>, sophomore, Political Science and Poverty Studies major, Charlotte, N.C.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Picardi<\/strong>, senior, Economics and Spanish major, Belmont, Ma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alyssa Richardson<\/strong>, senior,\u00a0 Economics and Political Science major, Columbia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jane Sanders<\/strong>, senior, Political Science and Spanish major, Charlotte, N.C.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/connect\/blog\/Pages\/Agenda-for-Youth-Visiting-Honolulu-Global-Growth.aspx\">Read the post by U.S. Department of the Treasury<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Furman students and two professors are currently in Hawaii for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.  As part of their duties at the conference, the students attended a meeting of the APEC Forum Finance Ministers hosted by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.  The Furman students are participating in the conference through a program organized by APEC Voices of the Future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-economics","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}