{"id":3753,"date":"2018-05-30T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2018-05-30T13:29:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:29:53","slug":"hola-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/news\/hola-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Hola, Per\u00fa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>5\/29\/2018<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Written by Mark Watson<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hello!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Right now I&#8217;m writing from the kitchen of\u00a0Casa Yllika, my student housing in the district<i>\u00a0<\/i>of Lince\u00a0in\u00a0Lima, Peru. It&#8217;s been just over two weeks since I arrived in Lima &#8211; and quite packed!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m spending twelve weeks in Peru learning and working at the\u00a0<i>Centro Internacional de la Papa\u00a0<\/i>(the International Potato Center, or CIP for short), an agricultural research center in Lima that\u2019s had a global effect alleviating poverty through its research on potatoes and other root and tuber crops (by the way, I\u2019m studying horticultural science, agronomy and Spanish).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During my two weeks so far, I\u2019ve gotten settled into life in Lima and into my internship as a research assistant at CIP. Lima has a population bigger than that of New York City, which comes with immense culture and opportunities (and traffic). My internship is with a project led by CIP\u2019s very own Gabriela Burgos and Thomas zum Felde, harnessing the incredibly diverse landscape of potatoes domesticated in Peru to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies in humans. So far, my time at CIP has looked like a combination of laboratory and outdoors work, preparing lots of potatoes for chemical and machine-based analyses at CIP.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing while I\u2019m here in Peru, although I\u2019m sure there are plenty of adventures awaiting that aren\u2019t planned. I\u2019ll keep you posted!<\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<div>\r\n<div>5\/29\/2018<\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div><em>Written by Mark Watson<\/em><\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div>Hello!<\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div>Right now I'm writing from the kitchen of\u00a0Casa Yllika, my student housing in the district<i>\u00a0<\/i>of Lince\u00a0in\u00a0Lima, Peru. It's been just over two weeks since I arrived in Lima - and quite packed!<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div>I'm spending twelve weeks in Peru learning and working at the\u00a0<i>Centro Internacional de la Papa\u00a0<\/i>(the International Potato Center, or CIP for short), an agricultural research center in Lima that\u2019s had a global effect alleviating poverty through its research on potatoes and other root and tuber crops (by the way, I\u2019m studying horticultural science, agronomy and Spanish).<\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div>During my two weeks so far, I\u2019ve gotten settled into life in Lima and into my internship as a research assistant at CIP. Lima has a population bigger than that of New York City, which comes with immense culture and opportunities (and traffic). My internship is with a project led by CIP\u2019s very own Gabriela Burgos and Thomas zum Felde, harnessing the incredibly diverse landscape of potatoes domesticated in Peru to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies in humans. So far, my time at CIP has looked like a combination of laboratory and outdoors work, preparing lots of potatoes for chemical and machine-based analyses at CIP.<\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div>That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing while I\u2019m here in Peru, although I\u2019m sure there are plenty of adventures awaiting that aren\u2019t planned. I\u2019ll keep you posted!<\/div>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about what Mark is working on this summer, in Lima, Peru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":998,"featured_media":3766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-pack-abroad"],"acf":[],"flickr_id":"","youtube_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3758,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/3758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}