{"id":54,"date":"2016-06-02T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2024-10-01T01:09:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T01:09:42","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the web site for Laura Runyen-Janecky. \u00a0I grew up in a military family and spent most of my childhood in and around San Antonio, Texas. \u00a0Education was one of the cornerstones of the Runyen family growing up. \u00a0My mother and father both believed in the power of education in opening doors for their children, and my mother just retired after 40+ years of being a preschool teacher. \u00a0I have three amazing siblings, each of whom obtained college degrees and have super interesting lives and jobs. \u00a0Currently, I spend most of my days as a professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Richmond<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/biology.richmond.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Biology<\/a>\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/2016cv-runyenjanecky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CV<\/a>).\u00a0 The web site for my research group is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rjlab\/\">https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rjlab\/<\/a>\u00a0 if you want to find out more about my scientific interests.\u00a0 You might also find me taking adult ballet classes at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondballet.com\/school\/\">School of the Richmond Ballet<\/a> to reconnect with my first love &#8230; ballet.\u00a0 As a child and teenager, I trained with the (now defunct) San Antonio Ballet Company.\u00a0 You also might find me making homemade cheese, fermenting random vegetables, exercising\u00a0 or hanging out with my retired husband at our &#8220;swamp shack&#8221; on the Chickahominy River. \u00a0You can contact me at <a href=\"mailto:Lrunyenj@richmond.edu\">Lrunyenj@richmond.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the web site for Laura Runyen-Janecky. \u00a0I grew up in a military family and spent most of my childhood in and around San Antonio, Texas. \u00a0Education was one of the cornerstones of the Runyen family growing up. \u00a0My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1960,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}