{"id":370,"date":"2011-05-02T09:02:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.emory.edu\/historynews\/?p=370"},"modified":"2011-05-02T09:02:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:02:05","slug":"update-from-jim-crooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2011\/05\/02\/update-from-jim-crooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Jim Crooks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jim Crooks has a position with the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jim Crooks<\/strong>, B.A. 1998, History, and High Honors in Physics, went on to get a Ph.D. in physics from UNC Chapel Hill, but switched gears and now has a position at the Environmental Protection Agency, in the Office of Research and Development. He will be part of a biostatistics core facility that provides internal consulting for other agency scientists.\u00a0 He writes, “Most of what I’ll be doing will be epidemiology and bioinformatics, though it strongly depends on who asks for help.”\u00a0 During his most recent job search, he found that one of the aspects of his CV that the “interviewers zeroed in on was a 2nd place award for best essay on Byzantine history that I received while taking Dr. Burns’ class.\u00a0 They found this very reassuring; they were concerned (with some justification) that someone with strong mathematical skills would necessarily be a poor communicator and have narrow interests. Apparently the award convinced them otherwise because I was offered the job.”\u00a0 He and his family enjoy life in the Research Triangle area.\u00a0 He writes, “I have two sons, ages 3 and 6, who are a delight.\u00a0 They are protected by a guard-bunny named Hop.\u00a0 My wife is a human geneticist at Duke, though she will soon be starting a new job at UNC Hospital.\u00a0 We love going to the theater, staying involved with the school system, and being generally over-scheduled.”<\/p>\n

He explains that “Durham has–quite unexpectedly–become the hip corner of the Triangle over the last five years.\u00a0 Downtown has come back to life.\u00a0 The arts scene is thriving.\u00a0 And the restaurants… you would be stunned by the selection and quality we have now.\u00a0 Where else can you get a chana masala taco prepared in a red school bus-turned-taco truck?”\u00a0 He concludes, “Neither my wife nor I will ever forget the amazing summer we spent digging up a Roman villa in Pecs, Hungary as part of an Emory history department study abroad!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Crooks, B.A. 1998, History, and High Honors in Physics, went on to get a Ph.D. in physics from UNC Chapel Hill, but switched gears and now has a position at the Environmental Protection Agency, in the Office of Research and Development. He will be part of a biostatistics core facility that provides internal consulting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}