{"id":1565,"date":"2012-10-09T05:17:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T05:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2014-01-03T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:55:55","slug":"barbara-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/barbara-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/evans_b_pic_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1566\" title=\"evans_b_pic_0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/evans_b_pic_0-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Professor <strong>Barbara Evans<\/strong> is the\u00a0 Former Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia. Recognized for her\u00a0international leadership in graduate education,\u00a0Barbara\u00a0has been a keynote speaker at many conferences focused on graduate education\u00a0in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. \u00a0 Dean\u00a0Evans\u00a0was recently named as one of the top 50 current and emerging leaders in Australia by Advance, the leading global network of Australians and alumni abroad. She was honored at the Advance Women\u2019s\u00a0Leadership Summit in Sydney. \u00a0She is also an Olympian, representing Australia in Gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympic Games 1964 and the\u00a0World Gymnastics Championships in Germany 1966.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Originally a comparative physiologist and zoologist, Barbara&#8217;s research resulted in over 100 publications and she is author and editor of three award-winning Biology textbooks for tertiary and senior secondary students, each now in their fourth edition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Barbara Evans is the\u00a0 Former Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia. Recognized for her\u00a0international leadership in graduate education,\u00a0Barbara\u00a0has been a keynote speaker at many conferences focused on graduate education\u00a0in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. \u00a0 Dean\u00a0Evans\u00a0was recently named as one of the top 50 current and emerging leaders in Australia by Advance, the leading global network of Australians and alumni abroad. She was honored at the Advance Women\u2019s\u00a0Leadership Summit in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/barbara-evans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barbara Evans<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,284],"tags":[107,540],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forces-and-forms-network","category-people","tag-graduate-education","tag-university-of-british-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}