{"id":2923,"date":"2015-04-22T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:42:15","slug":"who-am-i-wednesday-mike-lerner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2015\/04\/22\/who-am-i-wednesday-mike-lerner\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I? Wednesday &#8211; Mike Lerner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name: <\/strong>Mike Lerner<\/p>\n<p><strong>Area of Study \/ Position Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Inorganic\/Materials Chemistry, Professor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?):<\/strong>\u00a0It was some courses I took in my first year at college. Freshman majors didn\u2019t take general chemistry, instead I had one term each of biochemistry and crystallography. I was fascinated and a bit mystified, and they got me hooked into chemistry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties?<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m looking into new intercalation chemistry reactions, and also at the preparation of new nanocomposites materials. These are interesting lately because they are the electrodes used in lithium-ion and related batteries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing you truly love about your job?<\/strong>\u00a0One thing I love is discussing results from ongoing research projects. Getting results from new experiments means finding out unknown things about nature, and it really feels like being an explorer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One interesting\/strange factoid about yourself.<\/strong>\u00a0I worked for Stanley Kaplan (the man himself) for several years during college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Mike Lerner Area of Study \/ Position Title:\u00a0Inorganic\/Materials Chemistry, Professor Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?):\u00a0It was some courses I took in my first year at college. Freshman majors didn\u2019t take general chemistry, instead I had one term each of biochemistry and crystallography. I was fascinated and a bit mystified, and they&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2015\/04\/22\/who-am-i-wednesday-mike-lerner\/\">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":[187099,208276],"tags":[199164,208278,208281],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-mentions","category-who-am-i","tag-mike-lerner","tag-wai","tag-who-am-i-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","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=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}