{"id":1046,"date":"2009-05-27T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T11:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2009-06-27T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:22:41","slug":"dr-scott-honored-with-another-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Dr Scott Honored with another Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. Scott.\u00c2\u00a0Dr. Scott has devoted her life to advancing public understanding of evolution. As the executive director of the National Center for Science Education she has been in the forefront of battles to ensure that public education clearly distinguishes science from non-science and that the principles of evolution are taught in all biology courses. Congratulations again Genie from all at FCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1046\">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-gS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":754,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=754","url_meta":{"origin":1046,"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. 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