{"id":143,"date":"2021-04-22T18:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/?p=143"},"modified":"2021-04-22T18:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:50:02","slug":"dr-erica-crespi-honored-as-wsu-woman-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/2021\/04\/22\/dr-erica-crespi-honored-as-wsu-woman-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Erica Crespi Honored as WSU Woman of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six CAS women were honored for their accomplishments, service, and commitment to student success at the 15th annual WSU Women of Distinction awards ceremonies this spring. Our own Dr. Erica Crespi is among these amazing women.<\/p>\n

Erica Crespi
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As an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences (SBS), 2021 Woman of the Year Erica Crespi is committed to excellence in research and teaching, but it\u2019s her \u201ccommitment to promoting the success of diverse students,\u201d her nomination letter said, that makes her truly exceptional. She is a tireless advocate for under-represented groups in the sciences \u2013 particularly women. She mentors and advises female students, co-advises the Scientista group, serves on the President\u2019s Commission on the Status of Women, regularly speaks on panels about women in science, and recently secured a grant to support a maternal-child health collaborative that will bring together female researchers from across WSU.<\/p>\n

In addition to her advocacy work, Crespi is an engaging teacher who received the Smith Teaching and Learning Award in 2017 and was inducted into the WSU Teaching Academy in 2020. She has had several projects funded by the National Science Foundation and recently received a $900K Murdock Trust grant to build an Aquatics Phenomics Research Center at WSU. \u201cWhile there are many important women leaders at WSU,\u201d her nomination letter read, \u201cErica is unique in that her leadership is changing the landscape of research at WSU for so many faculty while also innovating graduate and undergraduate training and education.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Six CAS women were honored for their accomplishments, service, and commitment to student success at the 15th annual WSU Women of Distinction awards ceremonies this spring. Our own Dr. Erica Crespi is among these amazing women.<\/p>\n

Erica Crespi
Woman of the Year
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As an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences (SBS), 2021 Woman of the Year Erica Crespi is committed to excellence in research and teaching, but it\u2019s her \u201ccommitment to promoting the success of diverse students,\u201d her nomination letter said, that makes her truly exceptional. She is … » More …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/imhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}