{"id":89100,"date":"2019-03-21T12:27:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=89100"},"modified":"2023-01-13T11:10:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:10:39","slug":"umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Charlie Sharpless had a problem to solve. He was finishing his post-doctoral fellowship and wasn\u2019t quite sure where to go next. He loved teaching and conducting research, but there were few positions at large research universities where he could mix these two elements.<\/p>\n
But at the University of Mary Washington, he found the perfect chemistry.<\/p>\nProfessor and Chemistry Department Chair Charlie Sharpless receives the Distinguished Research Award from the Virginia section of the American Chemical Society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
As a professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry, Sharpless combines equal parts teaching, advising and research to make new discoveries in environmental chemistry and educate the next generation of scientists and industry leaders. Now he is being honored with the Distinguished Research Award by the Virginia section of the American Chemical Society at its annual award ceremony in Richmond on Thursday, March 21.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never done research thinking about awards \u2013 it\u2019s always been strictly for the enjoyment \u2013 but it\u2019s an honor to be recognized, particularly for the success I\u2019ve had working with my students over the years,\u201d said Sharpless, who came to UMW in 2004 after earning a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Duke University and a B.A. in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n
For the last two decades, Sharpless has studied environmental aquatic photochemistry, exploring the chemical reactions that happen when sunlight is absorbed by dissolved organic matter in the water. He\u2019s discovered that simple measurements \u2013 such as the \u201cbrown-ness\u201d of the water \u2013 can make accurate predictions about the rates of contaminant degradation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying to understand how fast pollutants go away in the environment when the sun is shining,\u201d said Sharpless, who has taken samples from clean bodies of water such as rivers, lakes and coastal marine systems, and studied the photochemistry that takes place during oil seeps and spills.<\/p>\nMatt Walters ’16 and Charlie Sharpless inspecting an oil sampling net in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
His work with collaborators at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts led to an opportunity to study the effects that photochemistry had on degrading oil in the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010. Sharpless and Matt Walters ’16 later traveled to the Gulf of Mexico to capture oil samples. Their research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, has provided scientific insight to the federal government and industry leaders who are responsible for cleaning up after environmental disasters.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr. Sharpless has always pushed me to be a curious and driven researcher,\u201d said Orlando Stewart Jr. ’15, who assisted Sharpless in the lab with the Gulf of Mexico project. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry at Georgetown University. \u201cNot only has the research we conducted together opened my eyes to the impacts of chemical processes on the world, but my many cherished memories with Dr. Sharpless have highlighted the even greater impacts chemists as individuals can have.\u201d<\/p>\n
July Laszakovits ’16, with whom Sharpless published a paper, said he gave her tools that have helped her succeed in her doctoral studies at Ohio State University. \u201cI came into graduate school with the skill set to conduct lab work efficiently and design my own experiments, which few incoming graduate students know how to do.\u201d<\/p>\nProfessor and Chemistry Department Chair Charlie Sharpless with July Laszakovits ’16 and Orlando Stewart Jr. ’15. Photo by Norm Shafer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Earlier in his career, Sharpless worked with the Environmental Protection Agency and water utilities to discover how ultraviolet radiation can be used to disinfect and destroy contaminants in drinking water. And he\u2019s also studied how photochemistry affects the breakdown of pharmaceuticals that flow from wastewater plants to rivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cCharlie\u2019s work is first rate and internationally known, and it was done with undergraduate researchers,\u201d said Janet Asper, associate professor in chemistry. She nominated her colleague for this award, explaining that research at smaller colleges and universities tends to go unrecognized in comparison to the work being done at large research institutions. \u201cI felt that the Virginia community of chemists needed to know about the truly exceptional work he has done here at UMW.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Sharpless is eager to \u201cjump back into the brown water\u201d and research with his current students once the Jepson Science Center expansion is complete, he acknowledges that he couldn\u2019t have earned this award without the significant contributions of his former students.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of my students formed a great team over time to advance the work that I\u2019m being recognized for with this award.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charlie Sharpless had a problem to solve. He was finishing his post-doctoral fellowship and wasn\u2019t quite sure where to go next. He loved teaching and conducting research, but there were few positions at large research universities where he could mix these two elements. But at the University of Mary Washington, he found the perfect chemistry. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":89101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[721,704],"tags":[819,9524,9594],"topics":[5148],"class_list":{"0":"post-89100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cas","8":"category-top-stories","9":"tag-chemistry","10":"tag-csharple","11":"tag-jasper","12":"topic-learning-impact","13":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Charlie Sharpless had a problem to solve. He was finishing his post-doctoral fellowship and wasn\u2019t quite sure where to go next. He loved teaching and conducting research, but there were few positions at large research universities where he could mix these two elements. But at the University of Mary Washington, he found the perfect chemistry. […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UniversityofMaryWashington\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-21T16:27:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-13T16:10:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1140\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"460\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jill Laiacona\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UMaryWash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UMaryWash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jill Laiacona\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jill Laiacona\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/81cd90fbc8c9a45401477e39ce19ef4b\"},\"headline\":\"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-21T16:27:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-13T16:10:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/\"},\"wordCount\":770,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Chemistry\",\"csharple\",\"jasper\"],\"articleSection\":[\"College of Arts and Sciences\",\"Top Stories\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/\",\"name\":\"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award - News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-21T16:27:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-13T16:10:39+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg\",\"width\":1140,\"height\":460,\"caption\":\"Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry Charlie Sharpless captures oil samples in the Gulf of Mexico.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/\",\"name\":\"News\",\"description\":\"University of Mary Washington\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"University of Mary Washington\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/10\/2colorUMWprimarywordmark.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/10\/2colorUMWprimarywordmark.png\",\"width\":2255,\"height\":580,\"caption\":\"University of Mary Washington\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UniversityofMaryWashington\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/UMaryWash\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/81cd90fbc8c9a45401477e39ce19ef4b\",\"name\":\"Jill Laiacona\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e90d188164a077b82e87432426af894f63e0df9845498c0dc984982f0d0ee890?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e90d188164a077b82e87432426af894f63e0df9845498c0dc984982f0d0ee890?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jill Laiacona\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award - News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award","og_description":"Charlie Sharpless had a problem to solve. He was finishing his post-doctoral fellowship and wasn\u2019t quite sure where to go next. He loved teaching and conducting research, but there were few positions at large research universities where he could mix these two elements. But at the University of Mary Washington, he found the perfect chemistry. […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/","og_site_name":"News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UniversityofMaryWashington\/","article_published_time":"2019-03-21T16:27:24+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-01-13T16:10:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1140,"height":460,"url":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jill Laiacona","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@UMaryWash","twitter_site":"@UMaryWash","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jill Laiacona","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/"},"author":{"name":"Jill Laiacona","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/81cd90fbc8c9a45401477e39ce19ef4b"},"headline":"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award","datePublished":"2019-03-21T16:27:24+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-13T16:10:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/"},"wordCount":770,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg","keywords":["Chemistry","csharple","jasper"],"articleSection":["College of Arts and Sciences","Top Stories"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/","url":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/","name":"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award - News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg","datePublished":"2019-03-21T16:27:24+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-13T16:10:39+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg","width":1140,"height":460,"caption":"Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry Charlie Sharpless captures oil samples in the Gulf of Mexico."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/umw-chemistry-professor-receives-distinguished-research-award\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UMW Chemistry Professor Receives Distinguished Research Award"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/","name":"News","description":"University of Mary Washington","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#organization","name":"University of Mary Washington","url":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/10\/2colorUMWprimarywordmark.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/10\/2colorUMWprimarywordmark.png","width":2255,"height":580,"caption":"University of Mary Washington"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UniversityofMaryWashington\/","https:\/\/x.com\/UMaryWash"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/81cd90fbc8c9a45401477e39ce19ef4b","name":"Jill Laiacona","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e90d188164a077b82e87432426af894f63e0df9845498c0dc984982f0d0ee890?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e90d188164a077b82e87432426af894f63e0df9845498c0dc984982f0d0ee890?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jill Laiacona"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/NewRelease_Sharpless.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 16:08:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89100"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=89100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Professor](\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/Sharpless_Charles_171-199x300.jpg\")
![\"Matthew](\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/09\/Charlie-and-Matt-300x225.jpg\")
![\"Professor](\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/July-Laszakovits-Charlie-Sharpless-and-Orlando-Stewart-Jr.-300x207.jpg\")