{"id":2263,"date":"2014-06-17T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T22:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2014-06-17T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T22:53:21","slug":"undergraduate-quarter-spring-2014-chris-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2014\/06\/17\/undergraduate-quarter-spring-2014-chris-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate of the Quarter – Spring 2014 – Chris Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Heron has been selected as one of our Undergrads of the Quarter for Spring 2014. \u00a0Chris was born in Corvallis, OR. \u00a0Prior to coming to OSU, Chris\u00a0was in the United States Army – serving 3 separate tours in Iraq and was stationed in both Georgia and Colorado – finishing at the rank of Staff Sergeant. \u00a0After 7\u00a0years in the military, Chris decided to return back to school and enrolled at Columbia Gorge Community College in Hood River for one year. \u00a0He then came to\u00a0Oregon State University as a biology major. \u00a0His time as a life sciences major was short lived – once he took Professor Margie Haak\u2019s CH 220 course he was\u00a0hooked on chemistry. He commented that Margie was an excellent presenter and she stimulated him to think about everything. \u00a0Chris also had a wonderful\u00a0lab course experience in CH 361\/362 which he describes as \u201cjust fabulous.\u201d He particularly commented that Professor Emile Firpo was \u201cfun and had great\u00a0energy\u201d and that \u201cyou learned a ton\u201d from him. \u00a0The labs were key for Chris as it helped the lecture classes really make sense – they made him feel like \u201cnow\u00a0I really get it!\u201d \u00a0The P Chem series was really hard, but both Professors Glenn Evans and Wei Kong were great. \u00a0He loved Professor Kevin Gable\u2019s dry sense\u00a0of humor in O Chem. \u00a0He has been doing research in Professor David Ji\u2019s lab recently. \u00a0Chris describes the research environment as \u201cvery inviting and\u00a0simulating\u2026 Professor Ji has been very open with his lab.\u201d \u00a0His time at OSU has been supported through the US GI Bill from his military service. \u00a0Outside of\u00a0class, Chris enjoys racing bicycles with the OSU team on campus. This year, he has starting flying with the OSU Flying Club. He hopes to earn his pilot\u00a0license prior to graduation and become a crop duster. \u00a0The FAA now wants crop dusters to have a chemistry background and that job will allow him to get\u00a0enough hours to achieve his long term goal of being a pilot for a major airline.<\/p>\n

Chris comments that OSU has a fabulous chemistry (and science) program and all the faculty are great. \u00a0We are honored to have amazing students like\u00a0Chris as part of our program and we are grateful for his service to our country. \u00a0We congratulate Chris on all his achievements to date and we hope he\u00a0continues to have a wonderful experience at OSU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Heron has been selected as one of our Undergrads of the Quarter for Spring 2014. \u00a0Chris was born in Corvallis, OR. \u00a0Prior to coming to OSU, Chris\u00a0was in the United States Army – serving 3 separate tours in Iraq and was stationed in both Georgia and Colorado – finishing at the rank of Staff… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1235743],"tags":[208250,173134,102670,187044,187100,170191,187034,187048],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-undergraduate-of-the-quarter","tag-chris-heron","tag-david-ji","tag-emile-firpo","tag-glenn-evans","tag-kevin-gable","tag-margie-haak","tag-undergraduate-of-the-quarter","tag-wei-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}