{"id":6444,"date":"2017-02-10T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T03:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/13\/another-honor-for-george-ligler\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:25:28","slug":"another-honor-for-george-ligler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/another-honor-for-george-ligler\/","title":{"rendered":"Another honor for George Ligler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Ligler, a 1971 Furman graduate and one of the university\u2019s six Rhodes Scholars, is among the newly elected members of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nae.edu\/Projects\/MediaRoom\/20095\/164396\/165210.aspx\">The National Academy of Engineering<\/a><\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Election to NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer, and membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to &#8220;engineering research, practice or education\u201d as well as pioneering \u201cnew and developing fields of technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ligler, who earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Oxford University after graduating from Furman, was honored for \u201cleadership and engineering innovation in specifying and implementing complex computer-based systems for aviation and the U.S. Census.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Ligler, a 1971 Furman graduate and one of the university\u2019s six Rhodes Scholars, is among the newly elected members of the The National Academy of Engineering.\u00a0 Election to NAE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":16666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}