{"id":11825,"date":"2017-04-24T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T21:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2017-05-01T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T22:38:08","slug":"three-to-receive-honorary-degrees-at-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2017\/04\/three-to-receive-honorary-degrees-at-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Three to Receive Honorary Degrees at Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>New York Times<\/i>-bestselling author and CC\u2019s Journalist-in-Residence <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Hampton Sides P\u201916<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, acclaimed for his works of nonfiction adventure, will be this year\u2019s Commencement speaker and receive an honorary degree on Monday, May 22. Also receiving honorary degrees are <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Brenda L. Bass \u201977<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, a pioneer in the field of RNA research, particularly the editing process; and <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Van Skilling \u201955, P\u201979, P\u201982, G\u201919<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, former chair of the Board of Trustees, current life trustee, and CEO of Skilling Enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times-bestselling author and CC\u2019s Journalist-in-Residence Hampton Sides P\u201916, acclaimed for his works of nonfiction adventure, will be this year\u2019s Commencement speaker and receive an honorary degree on Monday, May 22. Also receiving honorary degrees are Brenda L. Bass \u201977, a pioneer in the field of RNA research, particularly the editing process; and Van&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":11770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-11825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2017","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2017\/04\/BUL-SPRING17-04-NewsHampton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11826,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions\/11826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}