{"id":3311,"date":"2026-01-14T14:06:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:23:03","slug":"gowan_honors_thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/2026\/01\/gowan_honors_thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie defends her Honors thesis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/900\/2026\/01\/Katie-Honors-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/900\/2026\/01\/Katie-Honors-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/900\/2026\/01\/Katie-Honors-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/900\/2026\/01\/Katie-Honors-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/900\/2026\/01\/Katie-Honors-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/900\/2026\/01\/Katie-Honors-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/900\/2026\/01\/Katie-Honors-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/harroplab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/900\/2026\/01\/Katie-Honors-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Senior, Katie Gowan, successfully defended her Honors thesis. Katie represents our first Nutrition student in the lab who contributed to both SAGA and EAT. Her thesis focused on the relationship between diet diversity and attention to good, using eye tracking. Katie will go on to graduate school to become an Occupational Therapist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior, Katie Gowan, successfully defended her Honors thesis. Katie represents our first Nutrition student in the lab who contributed to both SAGA and EAT. Her thesis focused on the relationship between diet diversity and attention to good, using eye tracking. 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