{"id":92,"date":"2013-07-06T22:10:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T22:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/?p=92"},"modified":"2014-06-06T22:12:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:12:21","slug":"kevin-ahern-inducted-oregon-state-university-libraries-open-access-hall-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/2013\/07\/06\/kevin-ahern-inducted-oregon-state-university-libraries-open-access-hall-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Ahern is inducted into the Oregon State University Libraries Open Access Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/files\/2014\/06\/Ahern-Hall-of-Fame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45 aligncenter\" alt=\"Ahern Hall of Fame\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/files\/2014\/06\/Ahern-Hall-of-Fame-202x300.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1935\/files\/2014\/06\/Ahern-Hall-of-Fame-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1935\/files\/2014\/06\/Ahern-Hall-of-Fame.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kevin Ahern holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University and is currently the Director for Undergraduate Research and a Senior Instructor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin\u2019s immensely popular Biochemistry courses are well known at OSU and his students clearly benefit from his passion for and dedication to \u2013 the subject.\u00a0 It\u2019s not only OSU students, though, who are benefitting from his passion and dedication.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin recorded his lectures along with his more than 100 biochemistry-related songs set to popular music and made them openly available to the World through his own YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he co-authored, with Indira Rajagopal, the textbook, \u201cBiochemistry Free and Easy,\u201d which he also made Open Access.\u00a0 The open textbook now has more than fifty thousand downloads and the videos are closing in on the two million views mark.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re thrilled Dr. Ahern agreed to also make this work Open Access via the OSU Libraries and Press digital repository, Scholars Archive@OSU. <a href=\"http:\/\/cdss.library.oregonstate.edu\/inaugural-class-open-access-hall-famers\">View Library Page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kevin Ahern holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University and is currently the Director for Undergraduate Research and a Senior Instructor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Kevin\u2019s immensely popular Biochemistry courses are well known at OSU and his students clearly benefit from his passion for and dedication to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/2013\/07\/06\/kevin-ahern-inducted-oregon-state-university-libraries-open-access-hall-fame\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/halflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}