{"id":2826,"date":"2008-08-13T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T12:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/13\/jolly-good-fellows\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T12:23:39","slug":"jolly-good-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/13\/jolly-good-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolly Good Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to break up the pattern of alternating cute baby pictures with rants about science and the general public, but I wanted to sneak in a plug for a new initiative that I&#8217;m very tangentially involved in on campus. Union has launched a new fellowship program, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/StudentLife\/Minervas\/MinervaFellows.php\">&#8220;Minerva Fellows&#8221;<\/a>, providing funding for 7-ish students a year (it&#8217;s supposed to be seven but they did eight this year) to spend most of a year providing aid to poor people in developing countries, and then return to campus to talk about their experiences.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Fellows and their projects are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/StudentLife\/Minervas\/Meetthefellows.php\">introduced on this page<\/a>, with links to their individual blogs (of course they have blogs&#8211; this is 2008, people). Of particular interest is <a href=\"http:\/\/pochedley.blogspot.com\/\">Steve Po-Chedley<\/a>, one of this year&#8217;s stellar group of Physics majors, who is currently working at a clinic in southern Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>All of the projects, and all of the blogs are worth a look, though. So go check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to break up the pattern of alternating cute baby pictures with rants about science and the general public, but I wanted to sneak in a plug for a new initiative that I&#8217;m very tangentially involved in on campus. Union has launched a new fellowship program, the &#8220;Minerva Fellows&#8221;, providing funding for 7-ish students&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/13\/jolly-good-fellows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jolly Good Fellows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}