{"id":4040,"date":"2014-04-07T20:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2016-02-12T17:26:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:26:26","slug":"convocation-series-2013-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2014\/04\/07\/convocation-series-2013-14-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation Series 2013-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First held in 1990, the Augsburg College Convocation Series is an annual speaker series that incorporates longstanding endowed and special programs. This winter, the <strong>26th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation<\/strong> honored one of the United States\u2019 visionary civil rights leaders with song. <strong>T. Mychael Rambo<\/strong> and <strong>Brian Grandison<\/strong> hosted the event, \u201cMusic for Martin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, the <strong>Batalden Seminar<\/strong> <strong>in Applied Ethics<\/strong> featured <strong>Sister Peggy O\u2019Neill, president and director of Centro Arte para la Paz<\/strong> in Suchitoto, El Salvador. Her presentation was titled, \u201cAwakening to the Reality of a Crucified World: Discovering What It Means to Be Human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Sverdrup Visiting Scientist Lecture<\/strong> in April featured <strong>Bonnie L. Bassler, professor in molecular biology at Princeton University<\/strong>, whose presentations included \u201cTiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria\u201d and \u201cManipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity.\u201d 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>To find out more about the Augsburg Convocation series, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/convo\/\" target=\"_blank\">augsburg.edu\/convo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First held in 1990, the Augsburg College Convocation Series is an annual speaker series that incorporates longstanding endowed and special programs. This winter, the 26th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation honored one of the United States\u2019 visionary civil rights leaders with song. T. Mychael Rambo and Brian Grandison hosted the event, \u201cMusic for Martin.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-2014"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","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=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}