{"id":575,"date":"2020-05-12T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/?p=575"},"modified":"2020-05-12T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:41:50","slug":"msaag-best-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/2020\/05\/12\/msaag-best-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Candidate wins Best Paper at MSAAG Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghann Smith, 3rd year graduate student in the Environmental Science &amp; Management PhD program, was awarded the <em>Best Paper Award<\/em>\u00a0in the Graduate Student Paper and Poster Competition for her paper &#8220;Hard Apple Cider in the New York Hudson Valley Region: A Tourism Study.&#8221; She was awarded a $100 prize during the Middle States American Association of Geographers annual meeting held at the SUNY Geneseo campus, and was given an additional $1000 travel award to help send her to the 2018 American Association of Geographers annual meeting held in New Orleans, LA. Meghann&#8217;s award winning paper was based off her Master&#8217;s thesis research within MSU&#8217;s Nutrition and Food Science MS program, and has since been published in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/msaag.aag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4-Smith-and-Lal-MSG502017F.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Middle States Geographer<\/a>. Now, Meghann continues to pursue her research interests through a different perspective exploring the sustainability of hard apple cider as an environmental and socio-economic assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghann Smith, 3rd year graduate student in the Environmental Science &amp; Management PhD program, was awarded the Best Paper Award\u00a0in the Graduate Student Paper and Poster Competition for her paper &#8220;Hard Apple Cider in the New York Hudson Valley Region: A Tourism Study.&#8221; She was awarded a $100 prize during the Middle States American Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-recognition","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/environmental-management-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}