{"id":2857,"date":"2015-03-18T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2015-03-18T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:53:56","slug":"who-am-i-wednesday-sarah-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2015\/03\/18\/who-am-i-wednesday-sarah-burton\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I? Wednesday &#8211; Sarah Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name: <\/strong>Sarah Burton<\/p>\n<p><strong>Area of Study \/ Position Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Graduate Coordinator<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?):<\/strong>\u00a0While chemistry is an interesting field, I lean toward the soft sciences. This is why I\u2019m the Graduate Coordinator, and not a chemist. If you want a sympathetic ear or a fellowship researched, I\u2019m your girl. If you hand me dangerous chemical compounds, I\u2019ll likely mistake them for a tasty beverage or a delightful snack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties?<\/strong>\u00a0I work behind the scenes for graduate students, processing their paperwork, collecting application information, setting up recruitment events. Beyond that, I sit at the front desk, granting requests and solving problems, like a benign mob boss who must operate within the bounds of the law. Completely within the bounds of the law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing you truly love about your job?<\/strong> Operating within the bounds of the law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One interesting\/strange factoid about yourself.<\/strong>\u00a0There are no strange factoids about me. I am completely normal. If you look beneath the surface, you will not find anything out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Sarah Burton Area of Study \/ Position Title:\u00a0Graduate Coordinator Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?):\u00a0While chemistry is an interesting field, I lean toward the soft sciences. This is why I\u2019m the Graduate Coordinator, and not a chemist. If you want a sympathetic ear or a fellowship researched, I\u2019m your girl. If you&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2015\/03\/18\/who-am-i-wednesday-sarah-burton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[208276],"tags":[208344,208277,208343],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-am-i","tag-sarah-burton","tag-who-am-i-2","tag-who-am-i-wed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}