{"id":4718,"date":"2021-08-18T11:01:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2021-09-03T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:44:42","slug":"alumnus-wins-award-of-excellence-for-his-photo-of-a-rescued-dugong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/alumnus-wins-award-of-excellence-for-his-photo-of-a-rescued-dugong\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Wins \u201cAward of Excellence\u201d for His Photo of a Rescued Dugong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muic.mahidol.ac.th\/eng\/2020\/03\/30\/\"><strong>MARCH 30, 2020<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Congratulations to Mr. Sirachai \u201cShin\u201d Arunrugstichai!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His photo, \u201c<strong>Marium the Mermaid<\/strong>,\u201d won the \u201c<strong>Award of Excellence<\/strong>\u201d under the category of Science &amp; Natural History in the 77<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Pictures of the Year International organized by Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. The Pictures of the Year International (POY) is the oldest and most prestigious photojournalism competition in the world. Each year, POY recognizes excellence in photojournalism, online storytelling, and visual editing. \u201c<strong>Marium<\/strong>\u201d is a baby dugong being cared for by scientists after being found lost near a beach in Krabi in southern Thailand last year. The picture \u201cMarium the Mermaid\u201d earned widespread popularity. It showed her appearing to hug the biologist who was feeding her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mr. Sirachai<\/strong>, a Department of Marine and Coastal Resources photographer, is also an Environmental Science alumnus from MUIC\u2019s Class of 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cr.:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/poy.org\/77\/\">https:\/\/poy.org\/77\/<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4_Award-of-Excellence-for-His-Photo-of-a-Rescued-Dugong_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4_Award-of-Excellence-for-His-Photo-of-a-Rescued-Dugong_02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4_Award-of-Excellence-for-His-Photo-of-a-Rescued-Dugong_02-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 30, 2020 Congratulations to Mr. Sirachai \u201cShin\u201d Arunrugstichai! His photo, \u201cMarium the Mermaid,\u201d won the \u201cAward of Excellence\u201d under the category of Science &amp; Natural History in the 77th&nbsp;Pictures of the Year International organized by Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. The Pictures of the Year International (POY) is the oldest and most prestigious photojournalism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muicaa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}