{"id":5352,"date":"2015-02-20T19:57:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2019-12-25T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T21:19:06","slug":"bill-nye-brings-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/20\/bill-nye-brings-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nye presentation garners media attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Nye\u00a0addressed\u00a01,800 people at Augsburg College on Valentine&#8217;s Day 2015 and shared his love for science.\u00a0The sold-out event, titled &#8220;How Science Can Save the World,&#8221; was part of Augsburg&#8217;s annual Scholarship Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Scholarship Weekend happens every spring and gives prospective students the chance to meet with future classmates and professors, and to interview or audition for the President&#8217;s Scholarship and for Fine Arts Scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>Local media outlets that covered\u00a0Bill Nye&#8217;s appearance\u00a0include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2015\/02\/15\/at-augsburg-bill-nye-talks-how-science-can-save-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WCCO\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;At Augsburg, Bill Nye talks about how science can save the world&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>KSTP\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;Bill Nye visits Augsburg as keynote speaker&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Nye\u00a0addressed\u00a01,800 people at Augsburg College on Valentine&#8217;s Day 2015 and shared his love for science.\u00a0The sold-out event, titled &#8220;How Science Can Save the World,&#8221; was part of Augsburg&#8217;s annual Scholarship Weekend. Scholarship Weekend happens every spring and gives prospective students the chance to meet with future classmates and professors, and to interview or audition &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,4,6,7,8],"tags":[3356,1627,2543,3087],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-faculty","category-donors","category-in-the-news","category-staff","category-students","tag-bill-nye","tag-kstp","tag-scholarship-weekend","tag-wcco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9556,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/9556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}