{"id":135,"date":"2014-08-18T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/?p=135"},"modified":"2014-08-18T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T13:15:08","slug":"welcome-steven-girard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/2014\/08\/18\/welcome-steven-girard\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Steven Girard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/files\/2014\/08\/girard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136 alignleft\" alt=\"girard\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/files\/2014\/08\/girard.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><strong>It is the College\u2019s pleasure to welcome a new faculty member to the University of Wisconsin \u2013 Whitewater.\u00a0<\/strong> Dr. Steven Girard has recently been hired as an Assistant Professor in our Department of Chemistry, with a specialization in nanomaterials.\u00a0\u00a0He graduated with his PhD from Northwestern University in Inorganic Chemistry.\u00a0 He\u00a0 received his Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry and a Bachelor of Music degree in Cello Performance from Lawrence University in 2006.\u00a0 He also completed post doctoral work at UW-Madison.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b>Here is some interesting information about Steven:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b>Hobbies:\u00a0 <\/b>I love playing cello, and also dabble in piano and Irish button accordion.\u00a0 I also enjoy gardening, cooking, riding and tinkering with my bike, attempting various winter sports that typically result in me falling down, beer and soap making, and playing board and video games, preferably with friends.\u00a0 I also have dabbled in hunting since moving to Wisconsin, with limited success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b>Research:\u00a0 <\/b>My research focuses on the sustainable synthesis of nanomaterials for renewable energy applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b>Family:\u00a0 <\/b>No kids or spouse yet, but I have one chubby cat named Moon and an awesome girlfriend of ~4 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the College\u2019s pleasure to welcome a new faculty member to the University of Wisconsin \u2013 Whitewater.\u00a0 Dr. Steven Girard has recently been hired as an Assistant Professor in our Department of Chemistry, with a specialization in nanomaterials.\u00a0\u00a0He graduated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/2014\/08\/18\/welcome-steven-girard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}