{"id":7343,"date":"2019-06-14T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2023-02-15T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T15:47:46","slug":"biology-national-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2019\/06\/14\/biology-national-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Biology Professors Serve with National Science Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image129.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7344\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?attachment_id=7344\" class=\"wp-image-7344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image129.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image129-94x100.jpg 94w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image129-315x335.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption><em>Professor Sophie B. George, Ph.D.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image130.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7345\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?attachment_id=7345\" class=\"wp-image-7345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image130.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image130-94x100.jpg 94w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image130-315x335.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption><em>Professor Laura B. Regassa, Ph.D.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Professors Sophie B. George,\nPh.D., and Laura B.\nRegassa, Ph.D., are\nserving prestigious terms as program directors for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is quite an\nachievement to have one professor asked to serve&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at NSF; it is unusual to have two there,\u201d said Carl L. Reiber, Ph.D., Georgia Southern provost and vice president for\nacademic affairs. \u201cThis is a testament\nto the quality of the faculty we have\nat Georgia Southern. The experiences\nthey will bring back to our students will\nbe invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regassa, who is serving as director of the Innovations in\nGraduate Education program is into the fourth year of her appointment. This is unusual\nat the NSF, as faculty typically rotate in for three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her three-year rotation, George will manage the Research Coordination Networks-undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) program in the Division of Biological Infrastructure. She also served in this role from 2012-2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Biology is proud to have two faculty members serving as\nprogram directors at the NSF,\u201d said Steve Vives, Ph.D.,&nbsp; chair of the Department of Biology. \u201cTheir participation in these\nservice roles is critical to the peer-review process, in enhancing STEM education and promoting interdisciplinary research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NSF is an independent federal agency that supports\nfundamental research and education across all fields of science and\nengineering. With a budget of $8.1 billion, the agency funds the work of\nprincipal investigators at nearly 2,000 universities and institutions across\nthe United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professors Sophie B. George, Ph.D., and Laura B. Regassa, Ph.D., are serving prestigious terms as program directors for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, D.C. \u201cIt is quite an achievement to have one professor asked to serve&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at NSF; it is unusual to have two there,\u201d said Carl L. Reiber, Ph.D., Georgia Southern provost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-7343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-spring-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}