{"id":193242,"date":"2026-05-15T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193242\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:49:11","slug":"mercyhurst-university-highlights-standout-student-ella-melcher-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193242\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercyhurst University Highlights Standout Student: Ella Melcher | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ella Melcher, an Intelligence Studies student at Mercyhurst University, has a busy weekend ahead.<\/p>\n<p>She graduates on Friday, May 15 and will then become a Second Lieutenant (2LT) in the U.S. Army at ROTC Commissioning on Saturday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p>Melcher credits Mercyhurst and professors such as Department Co-Chair, Dr. Fred Hoffman, for giving her opportunities throughout her collegiate career.<\/p>\n<p>Melcher was also featured by Mercyhurst University for being awarded a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercyhurst.edu\/news\/mercyhurst-intel-students-dominate-nmif-merit-scholarship-awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">merit scholarship<\/a> from the National Military Intelligence Foundation (NMIF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Melcher, an Intelligence Studies student at Mercyhurst University, has a busy weekend ahead. She graduates on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296,139],"class_list":["post-193242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}