{"id":2,"date":"2007-11-15T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-04T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T19:00:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About this blog:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This blog functions as the website for Matt Trawick, assistant professor of physics at the University of Richmond.\u00a0 My main research interests are polymer physics, nanotechnology, and atomic force microscopy.\u00a0 I am also a big proponent of research opportunities for undergraduates, and I use this space to post news\u00a0about my current students, as well as research opportunities for future physics students at UR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>About me:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0have been at UR for four years.\u00a0\u00a0I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and\u00a0hold a bachelor&#8217;s degree\u00a0in physics from Oberlin\u00a0College.\u00a0 I got my Ph.D. in physics\u00a0at Ohio\u00a0State University, where I studied vortex dynamics in high temperature superconducting crystals.\u00a0\u00a0 After that I went to Princeton University as a postdoctoral\u00a0teaching fellow, and stayed there as a lecturer for a few more years before coming\u00a0to Richmond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About this blog: This blog functions as the website for Matt Trawick, assistant professor of physics at the University of Richmond.\u00a0 My main research interests are polymer physics, nanotechnology, and atomic force microscopy.\u00a0 I am also a big proponent of research opportunities for undergraduates, and I use this space to post news\u00a0about my current students, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}