{"id":63474,"date":"2015-04-20T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=63474"},"modified":"2015-04-20T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:50:10","slug":"speakers-to-be-featured-on-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2015\/04\/speakers-to-be-featured-on-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers to be featured on Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Physical Sciences will be hosting two speakers for an Earth Day event beginning at 3 p.m. April 22 in Gibson Gunn Room 103.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Margaret Devall from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Stoneville, Miss.<\/span>\u00a0will be speaking about pondberry, a<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0deciduous shrub that grows to approximately six feet. Her talk will cover seed and seedling dispersers and predators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At 4 p.m.,\u00a0Dr. Sharon Hamilton will host Kelly Jones for a discussion on\u00a0composting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some student research posters from the\u00a0Conservation Biology class will also be displayed at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The public is invited to this free event, sponsored by Beta Beta Beta, the National Biological Undergraduate Honor Society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For more information, contact\u00a0<span style=\"color: #2d2d2d;\">662-846-4797.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Physical Sciences will be hosting two speakers for an Earth Day event beginning at 3 p.m. April 22 in Gibson Gunn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":63478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,296,246],"tags":[719,1242,556],"class_list":["post-63474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-college-of-arts-and-sciences","category-facultystaff","category-students","tag-department-of-biological-sciences","tag-department-of-physical-sciences","tag-earth-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63477,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63474\/revisions\/63477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}