{"id":26047,"date":"2016-11-02T13:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=26047"},"modified":"2016-11-02T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:06:55","slug":"faculty-and-staff-news-november-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/02\/faculty-and-staff-news-november-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and Staff News \u2014 November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>New Hires<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Grogan<\/strong> has joined The TAD School as an adjunct instructor, effective Oct. 21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephanie Mattson<\/strong> has joined Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Alumni and Foundation as an office and administrative specialist, effective Oct. 24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Melissa Truax<\/strong> has joined the Student Center for Health and Counseling as a psychologist, effective Oct. 20.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Weeks<\/strong> has joined Procurement and Logistics as a central services administrative specialist, effective Oct. 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Faculty and Staff Achievements<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ&rsquo;s&nbsp;STEM Scholars learning community discussed preparing for graduation and beyond on Oct. 5. STEM students Bethaney Giles and Gena Hoefs led a&nbsp;discussion on preparing for graduate or professional school or the work force. After the student presentation, the group attended Dr. Marty J. Wolf&rsquo;s&nbsp;Honors Council Lecture&nbsp;Series presentation, &ldquo;Academic Freedom v. Information and Communication Technologies: Challenges for Faculty and Tech Policies.&rdquo; The STEM Scholars group is directed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/eu6433bp\/\"><strong>Dr. Todd Frauenholtz<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/eu6433bp\/\">,<\/a>&nbsp;professor of mathematics<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/mc5388ea\/\"><b>Dr. Michael Hamann<\/b><\/a>, professor of biology,&nbsp;recently published an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Journal of Biological Chemistry<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>with four student authors: Karly Ackermann, Rebecca Florke, Shannon Reyes and Brooke Tader. The paper, &ldquo;TCL\/RhoJ Plasma Membrane Localization and Nucleotide Exchange is Coordinately Regulated by Amino Acids Within the N-terminus and a Distal Loop Region&rdquo;, studies the biochemistry of a protein called TCL, which may be involved in the process of developing blood vessels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hires John Grogan has joined The TAD School as an adjunct instructor, effective Oct. 21. Stephanie Mattson has joined Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Alumni and Foundation as an office and administrative specialist, effective Oct. 24. Melissa Truax has joined the Student Center for Health and Counseling as a psychologist, effective Oct. 20. Michael Weeks has joined Procurement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26047"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26054,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions\/26054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}