{"id":3260,"date":"2013-08-14T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2016-02-15T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:26:54","slug":"convocation-series-2012-13-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2013\/08\/14\/convocation-series-2012-13-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation Series 2012-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Koryne Horbal Lecture<\/strong> in April featured Gloria Steinem, a prominent spokesperson for women\u2019s issues. Steinem has traveled the globe speaking on the topic of women\u2019s equality, has led awareness rallies, is author of six books, and has launched two magazines including <em>Ms<\/em>. She spoke to a packed Hoversten Chapel about the founding of the women\u2019s movement, the gains made to find equity for all people, and areas in which improvement still must be realized. In addition to Steinem\u2019s talk, recipients of the Women\u2019s Resource Center\u2019s Courageous Woman Award (CWA) were acknowledged at the lecture. Recipients included Kristina Monje \u201914 and Bo Thao-Urabe, a long-time advocate for Hmong women, children, and refugee families. The CWA recognizes women who strive for social justice and peace on campus or in the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Sverdrup Visiting Scientist Lecture<\/strong> in April featured Harvard University Professor David Weitz who talked about the everyday physics involved in cooking food. Weitz explored with attendees the manners in which foods change during cooking as a way to illustrate scientific processes. The annual Sverdrup Visiting Scientist lecture series brings renowned scientists to campus to share their expertise with the Augsburg community, the College\u2019s aspiring scientists, and members of the larger scientific community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/convo\" target=\"_blank\">More about the Convocation Series.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Koryne Horbal Lecture in April featured Gloria Steinem, a prominent spokesperson for women\u2019s issues. Steinem has traveled the globe speaking on the topic of women\u2019s equality, has led awareness rallies, is author of six books, and has launched two magazines including Ms. She spoke to a packed Hoversten Chapel about the founding of the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-summer-2013"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5845,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/5845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}