{"id":2972,"date":"2026-04-20T16:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:01:23","slug":"maia-wins-the-james-b-rast-award-for-comparative-organismal-biology-and-presents-her-senior-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/maia-wins-the-james-b-rast-award-for-comparative-organismal-biology-and-presents-her-senior-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Maia wins the James B. Rast Award for Comparative Organismal Biology and presents her senior thesis!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>April 17, 2026<\/h2>\n<p>Maia is the recipient of this year&#8217;s James B. Rast Award for Comparative Organismal Biology. The award is given to a student who has demonstrated excellence working in integrative and comparative organismal biology. The award comes with $200, and Maia&#8217;s achievement will be recognized at the Duke Biology graduation ceremony. Congratulations, Maia!!!<\/p>\n<p>Maia also did a fantastic job presenting a poster on her senior thesis at the Biology Graduation with Distinction poster session!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 17, 2026 Maia is the recipient of this year&#8217;s James B. Rast Award for Comparative Organismal Biology. The award is given to a student who has demonstrated excellence working&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/maia-wins-the-james-b-rast-award-for-comparative-organismal-biology-and-presents-her-senior-thesis\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoderlab.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}