{"id":501,"date":"2019-12-18T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/?p=501"},"modified":"2019-12-18T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T20:12:06","slug":"biology-students-skype-with-author-ben-goldfarb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/2019\/12\/18\/biology-students-skype-with-author-ben-goldfarb\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Students Skype with Author Ben Goldfarb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/12\/unnamed-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-large wp-image-502 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/12\/unnamed-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/12\/unnamed-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/12\/unnamed-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/12\/unnamed.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Biology capstone students had the opportunity to talk with science writer Ben Goldfarb via Skype about his book\u00a0<\/span><span>Eager, the Suprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter<\/span><span>.\u00a0Students read the book, which was the recipient of the 2019 Pen\/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and held weekly discussions as a part of the current issues component of their senior capstone class.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology capstone students had the opportunity to talk with science writer Ben Goldfarb via Skype about his book\u00a0Eager, the Suprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.\u00a0Students read the book, which was the recipient of the 2019 Pen\/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and held weekly discussions as a part of the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}