{"id":970,"date":"2007-04-10T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:52:53","slug":"biologist-lee-abrahamsen-honored-for-community-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/04\/10\/biologist-lee-abrahamsen-honored-for-community-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologist Lee Abrahamsen honored for community work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x152927.xml\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/72Abrahamsen2804.jpg\" alt=\"Lee Abrahamsen\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Abrahamsen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Several years ago, students in Lee Abrahamsen&#8217;s 300-level virology course undertook a project for a hepatitis-C support group at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the group craved information about everyday impacts the disease would have \u2014 &#8220;things like, &#8216;Can I share my towels with my family without infecting them?&#8217; &#8221; Abrahamsen explains. &#8220;The students developed this nice little booklet for them. It was a really neat project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the kind of community orientation that won Abrahamsen, associate professor of biology, a prestigious award from the Maine Campus Compact. In April 2007, Abrahamsen was one of three Maine college educators to receive the consortium&#8217;s Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence (named for Bates President Emeritus Harward). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x152927.xml\">[More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, students in Lee Abrahamsen&#8217;s 300-level virology course undertook a project for a hepatitis-C support group at a local hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[130,14,162,220],"tags":[1690,2479],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-faculty-staff","category-health-medicine","category-service","tag-biology","tag-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92976,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/92976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}