{"id":9231,"date":"2021-04-28T08:39:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=9231"},"modified":"2021-04-28T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:39:10","slug":"a-deep-conversation-with-rita-colwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/science\/a-deep-conversation-with-rita-colwell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deep Conversation with Rita Colwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/36767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/rokupicts\/36767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a> For over a quarter century, Rita Colwell has led a research effort that provided a more complete understanding of how one of the oldest and most chronic scourges of humanity &ndash; cholera &#8211; proliferates and spreads. But her efforts did not come easily or without challenges. <\/p>\n<p>In this special presentation and open forum, she discusses her pioneering research into cholera and addresses themes and issues covered in her recently published book, &ldquo;A Lab of One&rsquo;s Own&mdash;One Woman&rsquo;s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science,&rdquo; addressing many of the hurdles she faced as a woman scientist while advancing this research. Considered a science book for the #MeToo era, Colwell offers an astute diagnosis of how to fix the problem of sexism in science&mdash;and a celebration of the women pushing back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/36767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch A Deep Conversation with Rita Colwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a quarter century, Rita Colwell has led a research effort that provided a more complete understanding of how one of the oldest and most chronic scourges of humanity &ndash; cholera &#8211; proliferates and spreads. But her efforts did not come easily or without challenges. In this special presentation and open forum, she discusses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[583,28,1629],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}