{"id":25111,"date":"2010-01-12T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/12\/genie-scott-honored-by-nationa\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T14:15:08","slug":"genie-scott-honored-by-nationa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/genie-scott-honored-by-nationa\/","title":{"rendered":"Genie Scott Honored by National Academy of Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The National Academy of Sciences is to honor NCSE&#8217;s executive director Eugenie C. Scott with its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal.  &#8230;  &#8220;the medal is presented annually to honor extraordinary use of science for the public good&#8221;; Scott was chosen &#8220;for championing the teaching of evolution in the United States and for providing leadership to the National Center for Science Education.&#8221; She will receive the award on April 25, 2010, during the Academy&#8217;s 147th annual meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the National Academy of Sciences, Ralph J. Cicerone, commented, &#8220;Eugenie Scott has worked tirelessly and very effectively to improve public understanding of both the nature of science and the science of evolution,&#8221; and the chair of the Public Welfare Medal selection committee, John Brauman, added, &#8220;We honor her for many years of organizing coalitions of scientists, parents, teachers, business people, clergy, and others to defend the teaching of evolution.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2010\/01\/eugenie-c-scott-honored-by-national-academy-sciences-005277\"><br \/>\nAll the details are here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Sciences is to honor NCSE&#8217;s executive director Eugenie C. Scott with its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal. &#8230; &#8220;the medal is presented annually to honor extraordinary use of science for the public good&#8221;; Scott was chosen &#8220;for championing the teaching of evolution in the United States and for providing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/genie-scott-honored-by-nationa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genie Scott Honored by National Academy of Sciences<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6x1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}