{"id":8543,"date":"2015-05-01T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8543"},"modified":"2015-05-01T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T19:45:31","slug":"robert-dirks-00-memorial-prize-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/05\/01\/robert-dirks-00-memorial-prize-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Dirks \u201900 memorial prize announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" id=\"attachment_8544\" style=\"width: 830px\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8544\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/04\/Robert-Dirks-2015.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8544\" alt=\"Robert Dirks 1978-2015\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/04\/Robert-Dirks-2015-288x300.png\" width=\"193\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/04\/Robert-Dirks-2015-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/04\/Robert-Dirks-2015.png 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Dirks<br \/>1978-2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dr. Robert M. Dirks PhD \u201900<\/strong> tragically lost his life in the Metro-North train crash in New York in February 2015.\u00a0 Last week, the International Society of Nanoscale Science Computations and Engineering (ISNSCE) announced the creation of The Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize as an early career award which will recognize exceptional early-career achievement by a researcher working in any area of molecular programming.\u00a0 Nominations will be accepted for the first time in early 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrilliant, creative, generous, humble, and kind, Robert was a model scientist and collaborator. Members of the ISNSCE research community will honor Robert\u2019s memory by awarding the Dirks Prize to an inspiring member of the next generation of molecular programmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert M. Dirks PhD \u201900 tragically lost his life in the Metro-North train crash in New York in February 2015.\u00a0 Last week, the International Society of Nanoscale Science Computations and Engineering [&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-8543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/04\/Robert-Dirks-2015.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543","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=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8547,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions\/8547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}