{"id":67,"date":"2014-09-13T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-03-18T07:35:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:35:20","slug":"john-straub-serves-as-phi-beta-kappa-visiting-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/2014\/09\/13\/john-straub-serves-as-phi-beta-kappa-visiting-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"John Straub Serves as Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phi Beta Kappa\u2019s\u00a0Visiting Scholar Program\u00a0(VSP)\u00a0offers undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America\u2019s most distinguished scholars. It aims to contribute to the intellectual life of the campus by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Professor John Straub's Profile at BU Chemistry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/faculty\/straub\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor John Straub<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0<a title=\"2011-2012 Visiting Scholars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbk.org\/home\/FocusNews.aspx?id=675\" target=\"_blank\">one of the 14 scholars<\/a>\u00a0selected by the 2011-2012\u00a0VSP Committee. \u00a0Visiting eight schools (five in Fall 2011 and three in Spring 2012),\u00a0he spends two days at each, \u00a0giving a public lecture, meeting with undergraduates and faculty members, and participating in classroom discussions and seminars.<\/p>\n<p>The schools on his itinerary are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wake Forest University<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"FSU Visiting Scholars Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fsu.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/07\/chemistry.lectures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida State University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Colorado College: &quot;Molecules in Motion&quot; Phi Beta Kappa lecture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/events\/2011-11-03--molecules-in-motion-phi-beta-kappa-lecture\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado College<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"USD: Periodic Table focus of PBK Visiting Scholar Lecture at USD \" href=\"http:\/\/www.usd.edu\/press\/news\/news.cfm?nid=2294\" target=\"_blank\">University of South Dakota<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Penn State: Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Seminar: John E. Straub \" href=\"http:\/\/science.psu.edu\/advising\/news\/2011\/phi-beta-kappa-visiting-scholar-seminar-john-e.-straub\" target=\"_blank\">Penn State University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"UNCG: PDF of Professor Straub's Talk at UNCG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncg.edu\/faculty.groups\/pbk\/History\/Straub_flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Carolina at Greensboro<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Denison College<\/li>\n<li>Gettysburg College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Professor Straub's Profile at BU Chemistry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/faculty\/straub\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Straub\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0research focuses on the development and use of mathematical and computational models to uncover the principles governing the fundamental processes of energy transfer, signaling, folding, misfolding, and aggregation that underlie protein function. His excellence as an educator has been recognized by Boston University by\u00a0Gitner\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"BU Provost: Metcalf Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/awards\/metcalf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metcalf Awards<\/a>. Committed to scientific outreach and communication, he has served as chair of the Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision of the\u00a0<a title=\"American Chemical Association\" href=\"http:\/\/portal.acs.org\/portal\/acs\/corg\/content\" target=\"_blank\">American Chemical Society<\/a>\u00a0and as president of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telluridescience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Telluride Science Research Center<\/a>, as well as on advisory panels to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinheadinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinhead Institute<\/a>, the\u00a0<a title=\"National Science Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Science Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a title=\"National Institutes of Health\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Institutes of Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phi Beta Kappa\u2019s\u00a0Visiting Scholar Program\u00a0(VSP)\u00a0offers undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America\u2019s most distinguished scholars. It aims to contribute to the intellectual life of the campus by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students. Professor John Straub\u00a0is\u00a0one of the 14 scholars\u00a0selected by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}