{"id":13845,"date":"2017-10-12T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=13845"},"modified":"2017-10-12T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T17:46:42","slug":"native-american-knowledge-meets-western-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2017\/10\/12\/native-american-knowledge-meets-western-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American knowledge meets\u00a0western science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Native American ecological knowledge and western science will be integrated in some University of Maine science courses, with the goal of implementing the methods nationwide.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13846 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2017\/10\/Shantel-Neptune-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2017\/10\/Shantel-Neptune-copy-2.jpg 272w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2017\/10\/Shantel-Neptune-copy-2-105x95.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,272px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant,\u00a0tribal and UMaine\u00a0collaborators, including project leader and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Darren Ranco,\u00a0will develop science courses that utilize Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and western science to increase Native American student participation in college and career STEM fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/native-american-knowledge-western-science-integrated-classes\/\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native American ecological knowledge and western science will be integrated in some University of Maine science courses, with the goal of implementing the methods nationwide. With a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant,\u00a0tribal and UMaine\u00a0collaborators, including project leader and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Darren Ranco,\u00a0will develop science courses that utilize Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"3","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":606,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":606,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13847,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845\/revisions\/13847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}