{"id":1,"date":"2010-08-09T20:39:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2011-06-20T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T15:02:57","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/09\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dr. Hickling, Scholar of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/personnel\/hickling\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Graham J. Hickling\" src=\"http:\/\/quest.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/hickling-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"221\" \/>Graham J. Hickling<\/strong><\/a>, director of the University of  Tennessee\u2019s Center for Wildlife Health and associate director of  NIMBioS, was named the University of Tennessee <a href=\"http:\/\/quest.utk.edu\/2010\/graham-hickling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quest&#8217;s Scholar of the Week<\/a> for July 30, 2010. Hickling recently received a National Science Foundation Emerging  Infectious Disease award for his research on Lyme disease.\u00a0His study, in  collaboration with researchers at several other universities (total  amount for all collaborators: $2.5 million), will compare ecological  factors that might affect Lyme disease prevalence  in the eastern United  States.\u00a0This project contributes to his current research program on the  ecology and management of tick-borne diseases. Hickling is studying  several of the serious tick-vectored diseases\u00a0in Tennessee, including  ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Southern tick associated  rash illness.\u00a0He has also studied the ecology of bovine tuberculosis  and other wildlife diseases that afflict humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham J. Hickling, director of the University of Tennessee\u2019s Center for Wildlife Health and associate director of NIMBioS, was named the University of Tennessee Quest&#8217;s Scholar of the Week for July 30, 2010. Hickling recently received a National Science Foundation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/09\/hello-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[99,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}