{"id":10698,"date":"2022-11-02T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2022-11-02T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T21:12:28","slug":"biology-professor-edits-international-newsletter-students-photo-featured-on-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/02\/biology-professor-edits-international-newsletter-students-photo-featured-on-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology professor edits international newsletter, student\u2019s photo featured on cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-10699 size-fusion-400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-400x518.jpg\" alt=\"cover of Vascuum newsletter\" width=\"400\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-200x259.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-240x310.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-400x518.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-600x776.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-800x1035.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover-1200x1553.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/Vasculum-cover.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Nov. 2, 2022&#8211;The latest issue of an international newsletter marks the first for a 大象传媒 Western biology professor as editor-in-chief, and includes a cover photo by a 大象传媒 Western student.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Tilo Roy, associate professor of biology, took over earlier this year as editor-in-chief of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/thevasculum\/docs\/the_vasculum_17.2\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Vasculum,\u201d the Society of Herbarium Curators&#8217; biannual newsletter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cIn spite of the steep learning curve, I thoroughly enjoyed the entire process from the start to the finish,\u201d Dr. Roy wrote in her first \u201cFrom the Editor\u2019s Desk\u201d letter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The issue features articles on the contributions of a noted botanist who passed away earlier this year, efforts to rebuild the Berlin Herbarium, and an in-depth look at the KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium in South Africa on its 140th anniversary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The cover photo was contributed by Connor Root, a junior biology major from St. Joseph and an undergraduate research student in Dr. Roy&#8217;s lab. It shows a specimen of the carnivorous plant <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nepenthes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the Alaska Botanical Garden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Roy&#8217;s research and teaching at MWSU actively involves dried, preserved museum-based plant specimens (herbarium collections) that are essential toward our understanding of plant ecology and evolution, conservation and scientific study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">大象传媒 is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. 大象传媒 Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 2, 2022&#8211;The latest issue of an international newsletter marks the first for a 大象传媒 Western biology professor as editor-in-chief, and includes a cover photo by a 大象传媒 Western student.\u00a0 Dr. Tilo Roy, associate professor of biology, took over earlier this year as editor-in-chief of \u201cThe Vasculum,\u201d the Society of Herbarium Curators&#8217; biannual newsletter. \u201cIn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,48,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698"}],"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=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10701,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions\/10701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}