{"id":3864,"date":"2011-11-16T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2011-11-16T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T12:00:04","slug":"derek-nelson-99-receives-teaching-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/11\/16\/derek-nelson-99-receives-teaching-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Nelson &#039;99 Receives Teaching Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thiel.edu\/news\/news_releases\/2011\/November\/NelsonReceivesTeachingAward.htm\">Dr. Derek Nelson &#8217;99<\/a>, Associate Professor<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/11\/DerekNelson_web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3865\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/11\/DerekNelson_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a> of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Thiel College in Greenville, PA, is the 2011 recipient of the <em>Judge and Mrs. George H. Rowley Endowment for Teaching Excellence Award<\/em>. Derek will use the funds to study, adding a month-long study abroad component to the existing \u201cLuther and His Legacy\u201d course. Derek has taught at Thiel since 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Derek\u00a0was a Religion major at Wabash, has a master&#8217;s of divinity from Yale University, and a doctorate in systematic and philosophical theology from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<br \/>\nThiel College<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Derek Nelson &#8217;99, Associate Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Thiel College in Greenville, PA, is the 2011 recipient of the Judge and Mrs. George H. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}