{"id":17324,"date":"2020-12-29T12:45:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hets.org\/?p=17324"},"modified":"2020-12-29T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:45:30","slug":"dr-mary-jo-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/dr-mary-jo-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mary Jo Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mary-Jo-Parker_UHD_2.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17325\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Dr. Mary Jo Parker is currently a faculty member in the Natural Sciences department at University of Houston-Downtown.&nbsp; She also directs the Scholars Academy, an academic unit in the College of Sciences &amp; Technology supporting STEM majors through scholarships and a mentoring network system.&nbsp; She currently is PI on five active federal grant awards ($1.7M).&nbsp; She brings extensive experience in curriculum and development, supervision and leadership at K-12 and higher education, K-16 outreach and STEM recruitment, online instruction, and closing the achievement gap for minority STEM students.&nbsp; Dr. Parker has incorporated service learning into the University Seminar (Transfers) core course.&nbsp; She is piloting service learning in her online non-majors biology course currently.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mary Jo Parker is currently a faculty member in the Natural Sciences department at University of Houston-Downtown.&nbsp; She also directs the Scholars Academy, an academic unit in the College of Sciences &amp; Technology supporting STEM majors through scholarships and a mentoring network system.&nbsp; She currently is PI on five active federal grant awards ($1.7M).&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reference-posted","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"rcontreras","author_link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/author\/rcontreras\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}