{"id":147,"date":"2009-08-06T04:44:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T04:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/krslab\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-08-23T04:48:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T04:48:56","slug":"dr-swanson-and-rita-sodt-featured-in-uweek-article-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Swanson and Rita Sodt featured in UWeek article"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>&#8220;The Amgen Scholars Program: Encouraging a new generation of biomedical researchers&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;A chance encounter with a funny-looking  rock when he was 8 years old helped launch Phillip Poonka&#8217;s lifelong  interest in research. Now a junior at the UW and a student in the highly  selective Amgen Scholars Program, Poonka is on a trajectory that is  likely to culminate in graduate school and a career in biomedical  research.<\/div>\n<div>&#8216;It was lying in my street among some small chips of asphalt,&#8217; he  explained. &#8216;I came to the conclusion that it was a meteorite based on  the impact it left on the asphalt, its charred appearance, and its dense  metallic feel. My mom did not find the rock very interesting and almost  threw it away when cleaning the house, but I was inspired to learn more  about these rare extraterrestrial objects and I later made some simple  experiments to support my find.'&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uwnews.org\/uweek\/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&amp;id=51343\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Amgen Scholars Program: Encouraging a new generation of biomedical researchers&#8221; &#8220;A chance encounter with a funny-looking rock when he was 8 years old helped launch Phillip Poonka&#8217;s lifelong interest in research. Now a junior at the UW and a student in the highly selective Amgen Scholars Program, Poonka is on a trajectory that is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/?p=147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. Swanson and Rita Sodt featured in UWeek article&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematicalneurooncology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}