{"id":1946,"date":"2013-04-18T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T21:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2013-04-18T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T21:19:37","slug":"zyzzogeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/18\/zyzzogeton\/","title":{"rendered":"Zyzzogeton event highlights student achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/04\/Zyzzogeton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1947\" alt=\"Zyzzogeton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/04\/Zyzzogeton.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a>Augsburg College will celebrate the creativity and scholarship of undergraduate students on April 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the eighth annual Zyzzogeton Research Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Held in Oren Gateway Center, the festival falls at the end of each academic year and is a culmination of achievement featuring work across divisions and departments.<\/p>\n<p>This year, more than 80 students will present their research to the Augsburg community during a poster session. Zyzzogeton is an opportunity to hear about the exciting scholarship happening on campus and refreshments will be served throughout the event. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Zyzzogeton is sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/mcnair\/\">McNair Scholars Program<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/URGO\/\">Office of Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity<\/a> (URGO), and the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) programs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/\" target=\"_new\">Visit the URGO website<\/a> to read students&#8217; poster session abstracts.<\/p>\n<p>Augsburg&#8217;s Zyzzogeton celebration is the oldest festival of its kind in the United States. A &#8220;zyzzogeton&#8221; is a green leaf-hopper as well as one of the last words in the <em>Webster Collegiate Dictionary<\/em>, a fitting symbol to mark the end of the academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College will celebrate the creativity and scholarship of undergraduate students on April 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the eighth annual Zyzzogeton Research Festival. Held in Oren Gateway Center, the festival falls at the end of each academic year and is a culmination of achievement featuring work across divisions and departments. This year, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2438,3024,3182],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-research","tag-urgo","tag-zyzzogeton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}