{"id":5606,"date":"2015-03-20T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:48:34","slug":"matt-beckman-breck-school-award-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/20\/matt-beckman-breck-school-award-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Beckman adviser to award-winning high-school researcher at Breck School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/03\/AmInEngSoc-300x64.png\" alt=\"AmInEngSoc\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/03\/AmInEngSoc-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/03\/AmInEngSoc.png 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Assistant Professor of \u00a0Biology\u00a0<strong>Matt Beckman<\/strong> spoke with the Star Tribune about the work he is doing as an adviser to a Breck School senior doing research on 200-year-old pollen samples.<\/p>\n<p>Grant Two Bulls, a member of the Oglala-Lakota tribe, won the American Indian Science and Engineering Society&#8217;s competition through his work and which is providing a look at the lives of his ancestors when they lived near Lake Calhoun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s a high school senior doing pretty high-level research and then taking that data and speaking to national audiences about it in a really impressive way,\u201d Beckman said to Kim McGuire, a reporter at the Star Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the partnership between Beckman and Breck School in &#8220;Breck student&#8217;s science project is an award-winning mix of American Indian history and science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Learn about another Breck School student, <a title=\"Breck School student coached by David Murr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2012\/06\/21\/summer-researcher-from-breck-school-places-second-in-international-science-fair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor McCanna, who was coached by <strong>David Murr<\/strong>, physics professor<\/a>. McCanna took second place in one of the most prestigious international science fairs for her work with Murr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of \u00a0Biology\u00a0Matt Beckman spoke with the Star Tribune about the work he is doing as an adviser to a Breck School senior doing research on 200-year-old pollen samples. Grant Two Bulls, a member of the Oglala-Lakota tribe, won the American Indian Science and Engineering Society&#8217;s competition through his work and which is providing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,3233,1],"tags":[3566,430,3567,3565,3563,3564,2692],"class_list":["post-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","category-relationship-2","category-uncategorized","tag-american-indian-science-and-engineering-society","tag-breck-school","tag-kim-mcguire","tag-lakota","tag-matt-beckman","tag-oglala","tag-star-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606","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\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11771,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}