
{"id":15147,"date":"2011-01-12T17:14:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=15147"},"modified":"2011-01-12T17:14:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:14:59","slug":"biodiversity-pioneer-to-speak-at-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/01\/12\/biodiversity-pioneer-to-speak-at-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity pioneer to speak at commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Osborne Wilson Jr., Harvard University professor and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, will deliver UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spring commencement address.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson&#8217;s works on entomology are significant in the scientific community and he has written extensively on sociobiology and biodiversity. In the tradition of Rachel Carson, founder of contemporary environmental movement, Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work bridges the gap between science and the humanities, making science accessible to the general public and presenting the case for conservation of the natural world. <\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will be held May 8 at 9:30 a.m. in Kenan Stadium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Osborne Wilson Jr., Harvard University professor and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, will deliver UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spring commencement address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15148,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147\/revisions\/15148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}