{"id":5199,"date":"2018-01-13T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:33:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:33:33","slug":"prof-kelly-chacon-talks-with-minority-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2018\/01\/prof-kelly-chacon-talks-with-minority-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Kelly Chac&oacute;n Talks with ASBMB&#8217;s Minority Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood interests sometimes go unrecognized and life takes another path, sometimes several paths, before those early interests finally rise up and take flight. Such is the story arc of Reed&#8217;s newest biochemistry professor, <strong>Prof. Kelly Chac\u00f3n<\/strong> [2015-].<\/p>\n<p>Kelly is currently taking a junior sabbatical break from teaching in order to spend some extra time in her research lab, but she recently spent a few minutes discussing her past, present, and future, with a reporter from the <strong>American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology&#8217;s (ASBMB) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asbmb.org\/minority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minority Affairs<\/a><\/strong> section. The Minority Affairs interview appeared on 1 Sept 2017 under the title, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asbmb.org\/Page.aspx?id=74723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>September Research Spotlight on Kelly Chac\u00f3n, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many things you might learn about Kelly &#8230; After dropping out of high-school at 15, she didn&#8217;t discover biochemistry until 9 years later when, as a student at a local community college, she read about the Miller-Urey spark chamber experiment &#8230; Her road from college to college professor was anything but smooth (Reed students who feel like &#8220;imposters&#8221; might be reassured to know that the highly trained and well-organized instructor at the front of the class has dealt with those very same fears) &#8230; Some favorite pastimes include sewing and steel-tip darts &#8230; And the heroine and role model who inspires her, and the app that keeps her focused.<\/p>\n<p>Recent posts about Kelly Chac\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2017\/01\/prof-kelly-chacon-on-tap-with-biochemistry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prof. Kelly Chac\u00f3n \u201con Tap\u201d with Biochemistry<\/strong><\/a>, 6 January 2017<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2016\/06\/grants-support-new-faculty-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Grants Support New Faculty Research<\/strong><\/a>, 6 June 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood interests sometimes go unrecognized and life takes another path, sometimes several paths, before those early interests finally rise up and take flight. Such is the story arc of Reed&#8217;s newest biochemistry professor, Prof. Kelly Chac\u00f3n [2015-]. Kelly is currently&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2018\/01\/prof-kelly-chacon-talks-with-minority-affairs\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Prof. Kelly Chac&oacute;n Talks with ASBMB&#8217;s Minority Affairs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}