{"id":2512,"date":"2014-11-19T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2014-10-14T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T23:59:10","slug":"wednesday-michelle-dolgos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2014\/11\/19\/wednesday-michelle-dolgos\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I? Wednesday &#8211; Michelle Dolgos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Michelle Dolgos<\/p>\n<p><strong>Area of study \/ position title:<\/strong>\u00a0 Materials Chemistry, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you, etc.)<\/strong>\u00a0 My path to chemistry was fairly long.\u00a0 I always loved science and my first career choice as a child was an astronomer, then a pathologist, then a geologist, then a marine biologist (even though I had never seen the ocean or been on a boat).\u00a0 When I started college, I wanted to go to medical school like everyone else who is interested in science, but I got bored with all the biology classes.\u00a0 I loved my general chemistry class, so decided to switch majors.\u00a0 Then, my sophomore year, I almost left the chemistry profession because of Organic Chemistry, but decided to stick it out for one more semester and just get a minor if I decided it wasn\u2019t my thing.\u00a0\u00a0 I ended up taking P-chem next and fell back in love with chemistry.\u00a0 I decided to stay in the field, and I\u2019m happy that I did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties?\u00a0<\/strong> My research focus is trying to understand how the structure of a material relates to the properties.\u00a0 Then once we gain that knowledge for a particular system, we can rationally design new materials with improved properties. I consider myself a solid state chemist, but I have been known to work with thin films or amorphous materials on occasion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing that you truly love about your job?<\/strong>\u00a0 Writing grant proposals.\u00a0 Just kidding.\u00a0 I love working with grad students and watching them develop from student to scientist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One interesting\/strange factoid about yourself.<\/strong>\u00a0 I am a loyal watcher of a certain daytime soap opera, which people are surprised by for some reason.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, I enjoy torturing myself doing Shawn T\u2019s Insanity workouts every morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Michelle Dolgos Area of study \/ position title:\u00a0 Materials Chemistry, Assistant Professor Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you, etc.)\u00a0 My path to chemistry was fairly long.\u00a0 I always loved science and my first career choice as a child was an astronomer, then a pathologist, then a geologist, then a marine biologist (even&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2014\/11\/19\/wednesday-michelle-dolgos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208276],"tags":[208301,208277,208281],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-am-i","tag-michelle-dolgos","tag-who-am-i-2","tag-who-am-i-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}