{"id":10738,"date":"2022-11-16T09:14:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=10738"},"modified":"2022-11-16T09:14:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:14:03","slug":"biology-professor-to-lead-international-scientific-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/16\/biology-professor-to-lead-international-scientific-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology professor to lead international scientific society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10739\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10739\" class=\"size-fusion-400 wp-image-10739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Jedlicka-AFO-400x272.jpg\" alt=\"afo presidents\" width=\"400\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Jedlicka-AFO-200x136.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Jedlicka-AFO-310x211.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Jedlicka-AFO-400x272.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Jedlicka-AFO.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Julie Jedlicka (left) with three past AFO presidents at the annual conference in Plymouth, Massachusetts.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nov. 16, 2022&#8211;Dr. Julie Jedlicka, associate professor of biology at Missouri Western State University, was elected as president of the The Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO) at the association\u2019s annual conference last month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AFO is an international scientific society and non-profit organization that promotes field work and applied learning with birds among both academics and amateurs. Dr. Jedlicka previously served as vice president (2020-2022) and councilor of the organization since 2013.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AFO publishes the scientific, peer-reviewed Journal of Field Ornithology and promotes the safe use of bird banding to study birds across the globe. AFO has over 870 members and just celebrated its centennial anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Jedlicka organized the recent Centennial Conference in Plymouth, Massachusetts, at which she was elected president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 16, 2022&#8211;Dr. Julie Jedlicka, associate professor of biology at Missouri Western State University, was elected as president of the The Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO) at the association\u2019s annual conference last month.\u00a0 AFO is an international scientific society and non-profit organization that promotes field work and applied learning with birds among both academics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10741,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions\/10741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}