{"id":4535,"date":"2016-04-25T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:22:31","slug":"science-and-society-symposium-to-focus-on-gmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/25\/science-and-society-symposium-to-focus-on-gmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Society Symposium to focus on GMOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society at Missouri Western State University will sponsor a Science and Society symposium on genetically modified organisms (GMO) at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 in the East Hills Library Theater Room, 502 N. Woodbine Avenue. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManipulated: The Science and Politics of Genetically Modified Organisms\u201d will feature presentation from Missouri Western faculty and questions-and-answers with the audience. Presenters include Dr. Taylor Quedensley, assistant professor of biology; Dr. Hillary Mellema, instructor of marketing; and Dr. James Okapal, associate professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. 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 <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society at Missouri Western State University will sponsor a Science and Society symposium on genetically modified organisms (GMO) at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 in the East Hills Library Theater Room, 502 N. Woodbine Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. \u201cManipulated: The Science and Politics of Genetically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,68,22,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535"}],"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=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}