{"id":30283,"date":"2024-02-20T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=30283"},"modified":"2024-02-20T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:19:08","slug":"perrys-wild-semester-featured-on-pbs-local-news-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/perrys-wild-semester-featured-on-pbs-local-news-outlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry&#8217;s &#8216;Wild Semester&#8217; featured on PBS, local news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Perry, a Furman University alumnus and biology professor, has led a study away program in the New Mexico wilderness for nearly two decades. &#8220;Wild Semester&#8221; takes students out of the traditional classroom to explore on-the-ground wildlife conservation practices. The 16-week, four-class experience caught the attention of filmmakers Mike Abernathy and Matthew Murray whose production, &#8220;Learning Wild,&#8221; will air Feb. 22 on <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.knme.org\/show\/learning-wild\/?fbclid=IwAR0OIYlfsWE_zaj96vzf0JzgRXA-AKE4wcwC0EaxOeTixSJPOTIqu7rx2sM\">New Mexico PBS.<\/a> Locally, the documentary was screened on Furman&#8217;s campus Feb. 18. News outlets including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2024\/02\/16\/learning-wild-doc-features-class-furman-university\/\">FOX Carolina&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Access Carolina,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/greenville\/furman-university-wild-semester-pbs-documentary\/article_e1a01564-cb52-11ee-a1af-bb41ed877f13.html\">The Post and Courier-Greenville<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=2%2F18%2F2024+11%3A09%3A40+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=73080545\">WYFF News 4<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/lifestyle\/in-the-rugged-wilderness-filmmakers-chronicle-students-gila-journey-in-learning-wild\/article_d9a7c680-c923-11ee-a0ad-874a90d99705.html\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> covered the story. Furman News supplied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/pbs-documentary-highlights-furmans-wild-semester-in-new-mexico-wilderness\/\">this story<\/a> about the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS airs documentary &#8220;Learning Wild&#8221; about Furman&#8217;s &#8220;Wild Semester&#8221; study away program. Several news outlets share the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":30289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2576,3,19,1569,6,35,2575,47,61,2232],"tags":[2578,2574,2577,2562],"class_list":["post-30283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albuquerque-journal","category-alumni","category-biology","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-pbs","category-study-away-and-international-education","category-the-furman-advantage","category-the-post-and-courier-greenville","tag-aldo-leopold-wilderness-area","tag-conservation-biology","tag-gila-national-forest","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}