{"id":1041,"date":"2009-05-18T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2009-06-27T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:32:34","slug":"congratulations-to-eugenie-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Eugenie Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenie Scott Executive director <a href=\"http:\/\/ncseweb.org\/\">National Center for Science Education <\/a>and friend of the Florida Citizens for Science has been named to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=scientific-american-10&amp;page=3\">Scientific Americas <\/a>top ten people who have recently demonstrated outstanding commitment to assuring that the benefits of new technologies and knowledge will accrue to humanity. Scott, who describes herself as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s golden retriever.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has emerged as one of the most prominent advocates for keeping evolution an integral part of the curriculum in public schools in her role as head of the nonprofit National Center for Science Education (NCSE).<\/p>\n<p>Well done Genie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenie Scott Executive director National Center for Science Education and friend of the Florida Citizens for Science has been named to Scientific Americas top ten people who have recently demonstrated outstanding commitment to assuring that the benefits of new technologies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1041\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-gN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":754,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=754","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":0},"title":"Eugenie Scott at UCF","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned before that Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science Education is going to be here in Florida Nov. 3. The University of Central Florida issued a release about it today. Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education, will discuss \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Academic Freedom Bills:\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=754#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":64,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=64","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":1},"title":"Dr. Scott fires back","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We at Florida Citizens for Science brought Mr. Fisher's guest column to Dr. Eugenie Scott's attention, since she was quotied by him. She didn't like what she saw, and so she fired off a response which was published today: By Dr. Eugenie C. 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Dr Scott was one of the driving forces who help form the Florida Citizens for\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1863#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1046,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1046","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":3},"title":"Dr Scott Honored with another Award","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"May 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stephen Jay Gould Prize is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to recognize individuals whose sustained and exemplary efforts have advanced public understanding of evolutionary science and its importance in biology, education, and everyday life in the spirit of Stephen Jay Gould. Eugenie C. 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