{"id":412,"date":"2015-04-01T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2015-04-02T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T19:04:00","slug":"dr-kirk-cameron-selected-to-participate-in-a-leadership-science-policy-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2015\/04\/01\/dr-kirk-cameron-selected-to-participate-in-a-leadership-science-policy-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kirk Cameron selected to participate in a leadership science policy institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.cs.vt.edu\/~cameron\/\">Dr. Kirk Cameron<\/a> has been selected to participate in the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) in Washington, DC.\u00a0 The LiSPI selection committee evaluated each nomination based on record of accomplishment, proven ability to communicate, and promise.\u00a0 The mission of LiSPI is to &#8220;Develop a next generation of leaders in the computing research community&#8221;.\u00a0 According to LiSPI&#8217;s website, the policy institute endeavors to educate computing researchers on how science policy in the U.S. is formulated and how our government works.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra.org\/ccc\/leadership\/leadership-in-science-policy-institute\">Please visit<\/a> to learn more.\u00a0 This is the third faculty member from the CS department who has attended the LiSPI.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/people.cs.vt.edu\/~ramakris\/\">Dr. Naren Ramakrishnan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.vt.edu\/user\/75\">Dr. Madhav Marathe<\/a> participated in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/image36.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/image36.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Kirk Cameron\" width=\"150\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Dr. Kirk Cameron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kirk Cameron has been selected to participate in the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) in Washington, DC.\u00a0 The LiSPI selection committee evaluated each nomination based on record of accomplishment, proven ability to communicate, and promise.\u00a0 The mission of LiSPI is to &#8220;Develop a next generation of leaders in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}