{"id":61,"date":"2018-06-02T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T23:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2018-06-02T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T23:09:37","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/files\/2018\/06\/Ivy-and-Little-Killer_Color-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[61]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-65\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/files\/2018\/06\/Ivy-and-Little-Killer_Color-1-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/files\/2018\/06\/Ivy-and-Little-Killer_Color-1-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/files\/2018\/06\/Ivy-and-Little-Killer_Color-1.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a>Bio<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I grew up in Central Illinois and completed my undergraduate education in Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution at University of Illinois and my graduate education in Evolutionary Biology at Illinois State University. After leaving IL, I lived in\u00a0several places that, in hindsight, seem as different from the flat, rural, agricultural landscape as possible:\u00a0beautiful desert\u00a0in\u00a0Las Cruces, NM, idyllic cityscape in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, and snowy wonderland Rochester, NY. I finally landed in Spartanburg, SC in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>I am passionate about teaching and ensuring the success of my students, particularly those that are first generation (like myself) or come from groups that are under-represented in the sciences. When I&#8217;m not at Wofford, I am often running, hiking, reading, knitting, playing video games, or tending to the needs and whims of my cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bio I grew up in Central Illinois and completed my undergraduate education in Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution at University of Illinois and my graduate education in Evolutionary Biology at Illinois State University. After leaving IL, I lived in\u00a0several places that, in hindsight, seem as different from the flat, rural, agricultural landscape as possible:\u00a0beautiful desert\u00a0in\u00a0Las Cruces, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/ivytm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}