{"id":1514,"date":"2026-03-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:19:52","slug":"colby-college-jan-plan-course-explores-algaes-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"Colby College: Jan Plan Course Explores Algae&#8217;s Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CWVQtBupNqE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Colby College <\/strong>students are collaborating with <strong>Bigelow Laboratory<\/strong> and <strong>MDI Biological Laboratory<\/strong> through the <strong>Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator (MARIA)<\/strong>, exploring how algae can drive breakthroughs in nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CWVQtBupNqE\">Watch the Video on YouTube<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby College students are collaborating with Bigelow Laboratory and MDI Biological Laboratory through the Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator (MARIA), exploring how algae can drive breakthroughs in nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,19,26,54,96],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-biotech","tag-microalgae","tag-postdocs","tag-students","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}