{"id":18996,"date":"2018-10-01T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugaresearch.uga.edu\/?p=18996"},"modified":"2019-09-11T12:51:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:51:54","slug":"get-in-the-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/get-in-the-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Get in the zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate student Andy Hardy interacts with children in the Math Zone, part of the STEMzone event held before last fall\u2019s UGA-Auburn football game. STEMzone was created in 2017 by Reni Kaul, a Ph.D. student in ecology, to provide a venue for STEM students and organizations on campus to share their research with the public. \u201cScientists want others to know how our research fits into our greater understanding of the world and how it can be used,\u201d she says. \u201cEvents like STEMzone provide opportunities to engage with people we might never come into contact with otherwise.\u201d The university is devoting major resources to improving STEM facilities on campus, breaking ground on the $65 million I-STEM Research Building in November.<\/p>\n<p><em>This brief appeared in the spring 2019 issue of \u00a0<\/em>Research Magazine<em>. The original story is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/stemzone-2018\/\">https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/stemzone-2018\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate student Andy Hardy interacts with children in the Math Zone, part of the STEMzone event held before last fall\u2019s UGA-Auburn football game. STEMzone was created in 2017 by Reni Kaul, a Ph.D. student in ecology, to provide a venue for STEM students and organizations on campus to share their research with the public. \u201cScientists &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/get-in-the-zone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get in the zone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":18997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"post_medium":[314],"publications":[],"authors":[],"photographers":[],"video_credit":[],"takeaways":[],"class_list":["post-18996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications","post_medium-read","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"post_medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_medium?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"photographers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographers?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"video_credit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_credit?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"takeaways","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/takeaways?post=18996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}