{"id":10,"date":"2018-04-17T17:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T17:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2018-08-26T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:47:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cContagion\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(WRI 163\/164) is an interdisciplinary Writing Seminar that explores the cultural and biological meanings of infectious disease. The course is taught by <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.princeton.edu\/curena\">Dr. Carolyn Ure\u00f1a<\/a>, a lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/writing.princeton.edu\/\">Princeton Writing Program<\/a>. This website showcases a selection of fictional science news podcasts written and recorded by the students of WRI 163\/164 for their final assignment of the semester. Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/contagion-course-description\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0for the full course description.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Daniel Claro and Sorat Tungkasiri of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning&#8217;s Digital Learning Lab for their assistance in creating this website and for teaching the students of &#8220;Contagion&#8221; how to create their own podcasts!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">***<\/p>\n<p>Image Information: Ebola Virus Particles. Colorized scanning electron micrograph of filamentous Ebola virus particles (blue) budding from a chronically infected VERO E6 cell (yellow-green).<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nihgov\/20279770724\/in\/album-72157655462708633\/\">National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cContagion\u201d\u00a0(WRI 163\/164) is an interdisciplinary Writing Seminar that explores the cultural and biological meanings of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/about\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":204,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/contagion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}