{"id":26530,"date":"2009-05-27T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T10:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/27\/genie-scott-gets-the-gould\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T10:42:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T10:42:47","slug":"genie-scott-gets-the-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/genie-scott-gets-the-gould\/","title":{"rendered":"Genie Scott Gets The Gould!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenie Scott, head of the<a href=\"http:\/\/ncseweb.org\/\"> National Center for Science Education<\/a>, has been awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionsociety.org\/awards.asp#gouldprize\">Stephen Jay Gould Prize<\/a>.    From the press release:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OAKLAND, CA March 27<\/p>\n<p>The Society for the Study of Evolution has honored NCSE&#8217;s executive  director with its first Stephen Jay Gould Prize. Named in memory of  paleontologist and popular science writer Stephen Jay Gould, this award  recognizes outstanding work in communicating the insights, applications,  and importance of evolutionary biology to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Scott has devoted her life to advancing public understanding of  evolution. As the executive director of the National Center for Science  Education she has been in the forefront of battles to ensure that public  education clearly distinguishes science from non-science and that the  principles of evolution are taught in all biology courses,&#8221; said the  Gould Prize committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Dr. Scott] has been an important leader in the public sphere, molding  and focusing the efforts of scientists, educators, lay people, religious  groups, skeptics, agnostics, believers, scholars, and ordinary citizens  through firm but gentle guidance&#8230;for these many reasons, it is  extremely appropriate that Dr. Scott be the first recipient of the Gould  Prize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Scott will receive the prize at &#8220;Evolution 2009&#8221;, the annual meeting  of the Society for the Study of Evolution held at the University of  Idaho. She will also present a public lecture, &#8220;The Public Understanding  of Evolution and the KISS Principle,&#8221; on June 12th, 8pm, at the meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenie Scott, head of the National Center for Science Education, has been awarded the Stephen Jay Gould Prize. From the press release:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6TU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26530"}],"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=26530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}