{"id":207,"date":"2015-04-27T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/?p=207"},"modified":"2015-04-27T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T15:46:06","slug":"seven-questions-with-vaughn-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/2015\/04\/27\/seven-questions-with-vaughn-walton\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Questions with Vaughn Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. What is your position at Oregon State University\/OWRI?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am an Associate professor and Horticultural Entomologist at Oregon State University in the Department of Horticulture, and a Core member of the Oregon Wine Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. What do you enjoy most about your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working with growers, and students and being able to solve problems through discovery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. When you\u2019re not working, how do you enjoy spending your time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spending time with my family.\u00a0 We try to get out as often as possible in order to enjoy the mountains and hiking trials.\u00a0 When I get the opportunity I love to do some mountain biking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. What inspired you to choose your career path?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in a farming family.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always had the desire to be involved in farming because of this.\u00a0 Farming is of course problem solving and multidimensional.\u00a0 My current job is very similar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. What\u2019s the best advice\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0ever received?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When doing any job it is about serving people, not yourself.\u00a0 Excellence is important when serving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Which three people (living or dead) would you invite to dinner?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela, Ernest Shackleton, Erica Walton, my wife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. What is your vision for the future of your research?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To serve the industry and help them solve problems and improve their daily life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What is your position at Oregon State University\/OWRI? I am an Associate professor and Horticultural Entomologist at Oregon State University in the Department of Horticulture, and a Core member of the Oregon Wine Research Institute. 2. What do you enjoy most about your work? Working with growers, and students and being able to solve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/2015\/04\/27\/seven-questions-with-vaughn-walton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seven Questions with Vaughn Walton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195950],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-questions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/owri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}