{"id":3988,"date":"2009-08-17T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/17\/hey-to-uganda-1\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T09:30:05","slug":"hey-to-uganda-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/17\/hey-to-uganda-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a few times that one of our physics graduates from 2008 was spending a year in rural Uganda, working at a clinic and school there as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/StudentLife\/Minervas\/MinervaFellows.php\">college-run fellowship program<a> (with <a href=\"http:\/\/engeye.org\/\">Engeye Health Clinic<\/a>. Steve is back in the US now, and <a href=\"http:\/\/pochedley.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/moving-on.html\">headed to graduate school in Seattle<\/a> in Atmospheric Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s replacement in Uganda turns out to be another physics major, Tom Perry, who is now in Uganda and <a href=\"http:\/\/ublog.union.edu\/perryt\/\">blogging about it<\/a>. This is purely coincidence, by the way&#8211; there&#8217;s nothing physics-specific about the position, we just happened to have two really good physics majors in consecutive classes who were interested in the program.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re looking to kill some time on a Monday morning, go check Tom&#8217;s blog out. He&#8217;s got some good stuff up already, and I&#8217;m sure there will be more on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a few times that one of our physics graduates from 2008 was spending a year in rural Uganda, working at a clinic and school there as part of a college-run fellowship program (with Engeye Health Clinic. Steve is back in the US now, and headed to graduate school in Seattle in Atmospheric Sciences.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/17\/hey-to-uganda-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey to Uganda<\/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":[8,139,28,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-culture","category-politics","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","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=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}