{"id":483,"date":"2026-07-20T00:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/?p=483"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:28:39","slug":"september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"MASCOT Lab Officially Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #6c0633;\"><strong>September 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Meaningful Activity and Social Connection in Occupational Therapy (MASCOT) Lab was officially launched at Southern Illinois University Carbondale under the leadership of Principal Investigator Dr. Szu-Wei Chen. Together with Research Assistant Megan Weilmuenster, we are excited to begin building a research program focused on meaningful activity participation, social connection, aging, and disability research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2025 The Meaningful Activity and Social&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lab-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mascotlab.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}