{"id":788,"date":"2012-09-07T21:52:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=788"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:49:40","slug":"biology-students-honored-at-h-sc-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2012\/09\/07\/biology-students-honored-at-h-sc-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology students honored at H-SC convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To open Hampden-Sydney&#8217;s new academic year, the College community gathered for its annual convocation. \u00a0At the ceremony, two biology students were honored for attaining academic records that put them among the very best at Hampden-Sydney. \u00a0James Hughes &#8217;14 received the Samuel S. Jones Phi Beta Kappa Award Second Honor for attaining the second-highest grade point average in the junior class.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_789\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/Hughes-James-Bradford.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-789\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-789\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/Hughes-James-Bradford-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Hughes &#8217;14 and H-SC President Chris Howard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Burke Best &#8217;13 received the President&#8217;s Award for Overall Academic Excellence, presented to the senior with the highest overall grade point average.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_790\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/Best-William-Burke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-790\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-790\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/Best-William-Burke-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burke Best &#8217;13 and President Howard<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To open Hampden-Sydney&#8217;s new academic year, the College community gathered for its annual convocation. \u00a0At the ceremony, two biology students were honored for attaining academic records that put them among the very best at Hampden-Sydney. \u00a0James Hughes &#8217;14 received the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2012\/09\/07\/biology-students-honored-at-h-sc-convocation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}