{"id":2539,"date":"2025-01-22T19:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airlab.local\/?page_id=2539"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:55:18","slug":"blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/air.ug\/?page_id=2539","title":{"rendered":"Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2539\" class=\"elementor elementor-2539\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34dc234 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"34dc234\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-faca1a0 meta-visibility-show section-title-style-style1 title_position_default title_hover_border_default title-default img_hover_animation_default meta_position_default readmore-btn-default-style grid-hover-overlay-type-always tpg-el-box-border-enable 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Recipients of the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship Program\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t        <div class=\"overlay grid-hover-content\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-title-wrapper\"><h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a data-id=\"4655\" href=\"https:\/\/air.ug\/?p=4655\" class=\"tpg-post-link\" target=\"_self\">MAK-AI Celebrates Two Recipients of the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship Program<\/a><\/h3><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-meta-tags rt-el-post-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t            <span class='date'>\n\t\t\t\t<i class='far fa-calendar-alt '><\/i>\t\t\t\t                    <a href=\"https:\/\/air.ug\/?m=20251028\">\n\t\t\t\t\tOctober 28, 2025\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tpg-excerpt tpg-el-excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tpg-excerpt-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMAK-AI is proud to announce that two of its members have been awarded the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship, a 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