{"id":1010,"date":"2012-02-24T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2012-02-24T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T21:51:45","slug":"women-science-day-showcases-careers-to-area-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2012\/02\/24\/women-science-day-showcases-careers-to-area-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Women &amp; Science Day showcases careers to area students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/womenscience2012021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1017 alignnone\" title=\"womenscience201202\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/womenscience2012021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>More than 400 area seventh and eighth grade girls came to UW-Stevens Point to learn more about future careers in the sciences from women who are experts in their field on Women &amp; Science Day on Friday, Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p>A keynote address, \u201cAn Education in Science Opens Many Doors,\u201d was presented by Laura Nelson, a UW-Stevens Point alumna and chief medical officer at the Marshfield Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, students attended several workshops during the day. UWSP&#8217;s School of Health Care Professions professors and students hosted a workshop titled &#8220;Medical Investigators&#8221; where the visiting students worked their way through stations to solve a medical mystery using clues given and lab results obtained from hands-on exercise.<\/p>\n<p>In the School of Health Promotion &amp; Human Development, the &#8220;For Chocolate Lovers &#8230; A Sensory Experience!&#8221; session explored students&#8217; tongue map with bitter, sweet, sour and salty samples. Students then tasted four different chocolate samples and described the flavors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 area seventh and eighth grade girls came to UW-Stevens Point to learn more about future careers in the sciences from women who are experts in their field on Women &amp; Science Day on Friday, Feb. 24. A keynote address, \u201cAn Education in Science Opens Many Doors,\u201d was presented by Laura Nelson, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,14,15,18,19],"tags":[114,156,171,236,277,305,343,344,358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}