{"id":4,"date":"2014-10-14T23:34:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T23:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/womeninoptics\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:48:54","slug":"welcome-to-women-in-optics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/opticsforall\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4\" class=\"elementor elementor-4\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fcb0e90 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fcb0e90\" 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-1ed2d2a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ed2d2a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;font-style: normal;color: var( --e-global-color-text );text-align: var(--text-align);background-color: initial\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Optics for All is a University of Arizona student club run by graduate and undergraduate students of the James C. 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