{"id":5253,"date":"2021-08-02T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T20:20:31","slug":"prof-victoria-meadows-elected-to-the-washington-state-academy-of-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/02\/prof-victoria-meadows-elected-to-the-washington-state-academy-of-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Victoria Meadows Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 15, the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) announced its newly elected members for 2021, &#8220;recognizing their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement&#8221;. The 38 inductees included 20 scientists and engineers from the University of Washington; among them was our very own Program Director, Victoria Meadows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Meadows was chosen specifically for her commitment to the Virtual Planetary Laboratory and training the next-generation astrobiologists in UW&#8217;s Astrobiology Program. The WSAS official justification reads as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>For founding the Virtual Planetary Laboratory and leading the decades-long development of the interdisciplinary modeling framework and community needed to establish the science of exoplanet astrobiology. <\/p><p>For training the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists who will search for life beyond Earth.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/washacad.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-New-Member-Press-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington State Academy of Sciences Press Release July 15, 2021<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Meadows and the other new members will be inducted at the 14th annual member&#8217;s meeting in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 15, the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) announced its newly elected members for 2021, &#8220;recognizing their outstanding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[72,13],"tags":[34,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}