{"id":8132,"date":"2019-04-04T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T17:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/04\/roger-stevenson\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:20:27","slug":"roger-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/roger-stevenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevenson &#8217;62 honored for life of genetics work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alumnus Roger Stevenson &#8217;62 was honored April 2 with the \u00a02019 Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics&#8211;one of the most prestigious awards in the industry. The 78-year-old Dr. Stevenson is co-founder of the Greenwood Genetic Center, a South Carolina facility that placed the state on the map in terms of genetic research and diagnostics.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Benson of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexjournal.com\/news\/stevenson-honored-for-life-of-genetics-work\/article_6833291e-e665-5ca6-a43d-06df976ad41c.html\">Index-Journal<\/a> <\/strong>covers Stevenson&#8217;s accomplishments, including his discovery of a rare genetic condition in which skull bones fuse prematurely; helping to launch the SC Autism Project; and authoring more than 200 published works.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alumnus Roger Stevenson &#8217;62 was honored April 2 with the \u00a02019 Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics&#8211;one of the most prestigious awards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132","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=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}