{"id":23552,"date":"2021-05-12T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=23552"},"modified":"2021-05-12T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:14:37","slug":"dominique-dispirito-named-truman-scholar-receives-campus-compact-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2021\/05\/12\/dominique-dispirito-named-truman-scholar-receives-campus-compact-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominique DiSpirito named Truman Scholar, receives Campus Compact award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23310 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/04\/Dominique-DiSpirito-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dominique DiSpirito\" width=\"172\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/04\/Dominique-DiSpirito-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/04\/Dominique-DiSpirito-105x117.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/04\/Dominique-DiSpirito-317x354.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/04\/Dominique-DiSpirito-423x473.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/04\/Dominique-DiSpirito.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/strong>Dominique DiSpirito, a 91¸£Àû political science major and Honors College student, has been named a <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/blog\/2021\/04\/15\/dispirito-named-2021-truman-scholar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truman Scholar<\/a> and received a <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/blog\/2021\/04\/15\/west-dispirito-earn-maine-campus-compact-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maine Campus Compact Heart and Soul Student<\/a> award for 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Truman scholarship is a prestigious, merit-based award given to juniors pursuing public service careers based on their community service, leadership experience and potential, and academic abilities. The Campus Compact awards are made to six Maine undergraduates who foster an environment of civic engagement at their universities and in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Dominique is part of the Mitchell Center\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/maine-food-waste-solution-summit-agenda\/\">Food Waste Solutions<\/a> team, developing \u201ctriple bottom line\u201d solutions to food waste challenges that have environmental, economic and social benefits, and has helped launch two of the team\u2019s food waste pilot projects. Learn more about Dominique\u2019s food waste solutions work <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/maine-food-too-good-to-waste-students-lead-the-way-to-food-waste-solutions\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Dominique on this well-deserved recognition!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominique DiSpirito, a 91¸£Àû political science major and Honors College student, has been named a Truman Scholar and received a Maine Campus Compact Heart and Soul Student award for 2021. The Truman scholarship is a prestigious, merit-based award given to juniors pursuing public service careers based on their community service, leadership experience and potential, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23622,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23552\/revisions\/23622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}