{"id":1803,"date":"2016-06-29T09:45:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2016-06-29T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T13:45:17","slug":"danfeng-yao-named-elizabeth-and-james-e-turner-jr-56-faculty-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2016\/06\/29\/danfeng-yao-named-elizabeth-and-james-e-turner-jr-56-faculty-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Danfeng Yao named Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. \u201956 Faculty Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danfeng Yao, associate professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.vt.edu\/\">computer science<\/a> in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been awarded the\u00a0Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. \u201956 Faculty Fellowship in Engineering\u00a0by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth and James Turner created the Turner Fellowships in 2011 with a $1 million gift to recognize faculty excellence. James Turner is a 1956 agricultural engineering alumnus who is the retired president and chief operating officer of General Dynamics. He is also a former rector of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, and in 2004 received Virginia Tech\u2019s highest honor, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unirel.vt.edu\/history\/founders_day\/ruffner_medal.html\">William H. Ruffner Medal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients hold the title of Turner Fellows for a period of five years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vtnews.vt.edu\/articles\/2016\/06\/eng-yao-fellowship.html\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1804\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 211px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1804\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/Danfeng-Yao-6.27.16-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Danfeng Yao\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/Danfeng-Yao-6.27.16-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/Danfeng-Yao-6.27.16-768x1148.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/Danfeng-Yao-6.27.16.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Danfeng Yao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danfeng Yao, associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been awarded the\u00a0Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. \u201956 Faculty Fellowship in Engineering\u00a0by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. Elizabeth and James Turner created the Turner Fellowships in 2011 with a $1 million gift to recognize faculty excellence. James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}