{"id":8030,"date":"2013-06-17T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2013-06-17T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T14:50:05","slug":"graduation-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/06\/17\/graduation-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other big event of the weekend was Commencement at Union. I didn&#8217;t make it in time for the academic procession and all that, but I did hear <a href=\"http:\/\/union.edu\/news\/stories\/2013\/06\/lewis.php\">John Lewis&#8217;s speech<\/a>, which was great. More importantly, though, I was there to see our students graduate, and congratulate them in person.<\/p>\n<p>As I told my thesis student, I&#8217;m not always the best about praise and positive reinforcement&#8211; I tend to react to progress in the lab with &#8220;That&#8217;s great. Now, the next thing to do is..&#8221; But this year&#8217;s class was a good bunch of students, and it&#8217;s been a pleasure to work with them over the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>So, congratulations to (from left to right in the photo above) Mark, Christine, Pavel, Adam, Colin, and Halley. It&#8217;s been fun having you around, and best wishes for success in your future careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other big event of the weekend was Commencement at Union. I didn&#8217;t make it in time for the academic procession and all that, but I did hear John Lewis&#8217;s speech, which was great. More importantly, though, I was there to see our students graduate, and congratulate them in person. As I told my thesis&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/06\/17\/graduation-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graduation 2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","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=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}