{"id":138,"date":"2014-08-21T14:35:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/?p=138"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:35:17","slug":"welcome-jonah-ralston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/2014\/08\/21\/welcome-jonah-ralston\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Jonah Ralston!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/files\/2014\/08\/Ralston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139 alignleft\" alt=\"Ralston\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/files\/2014\/08\/Ralston.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><strong>It is the College\u2019s pleasure to welcome a new faculty member to the University of Wisconsin \u2013 Whitewater.<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0<strong> Dr. Jonah Ralston has <\/strong><strong>recently been hired as an Assistant Professor in our Department of Political<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Science.\u00a0 Jonah graduated with his PhD from Michigan State University <\/strong><strong>where he studied American Politics and Public Policy.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b>Here is some interesting information about Jonah:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b>Hobbies:\u00a0 <\/b>I like to travel, I enjoy craft beer and video games, I freely admit to being a bit of a science nerd, and most of all I treasure spending time with my family and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b>Research:\u00a0 <\/b>My research has focused on the degree to which personal values and political beliefs determine voting decisions on bills and ballot measures related to controversial scientific policies.\u00a0 Recent issues I have studied include biofuels, stem cells, and medical marijuana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b>Personal Life:\u00a0 <\/b>I am happily married with a young son who\u00a0 turned three this May.\u00a0 We have a long-haired cat named Dixie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b>Interesting Facts:\u00a0 <\/b>In 1999 Places Rated Almanac rated the county I grew up in as the worst metropolitan area in the U.S. and Canada.\u00a0 David Letterman sent matching gazebos to the area in a bid to improve tourism and they still reside there to this day.<\/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. Jonah Ralston has recently been hired as an Assistant Professor in our Department of Political Science.\u00a0 Jonah graduated with his PhD &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/2014\/08\/21\/welcome-jonah-ralston\/\">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-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}