{"id":1710,"date":"2015-04-06T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T13:53:12","slug":"congratulations-dr-gerald-roberts-weatherspoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/2015\/04\/06\/congratulations-dr-gerald-roberts-weatherspoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dr. Gerald Roberts Weatherspoon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2015\/04\/George-Weatherspoon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"George-Weatherspoon\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1711\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2015\/04\/George-Weatherspoon.jpg\" width=\"231\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJackson State University alum Dr. Gerald L. Roberts Weatherspoon has been named a 2015 Teaching Excellence Award winner at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., where he is the associate chairman for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn explaining its selection, the panel said, &ldquo;The committee was incredibly impressed with your portfolio and how it showcased the results of your amazing work with students.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn 2002, Weatherspoon became the first African-American to be granted tenure in science and engineering at George Mason and remains the only African-American faculty member tenured in its College of Science.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe graduated with honors from JSU with a bachelor&rsquo;s in chemistry in 1984 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Davis, in 1995. In addition, Weatherspoon is the only African-American to graduate with a Ph.D. from the Solid State Chemistry Group at UC Davis. As well, he also serves as Eastern Regional Director of Education for Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe formal ceremony for the excellence awards at George Mason is Monday, April 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson State University alum Dr. Gerald L. Roberts Weatherspoon has been named a 2015 Teaching Excellence Award winner at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., where he is the associate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}