{"id":4913,"date":"2012-08-15T21:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=4913"},"modified":"2018-01-24T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T17:49:22","slug":"capman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/capman\/","title":{"rendered":"Capman, William C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Capman \u201creally, really likes biology\u201d and thinks it\u2019s important for all students, of all disciplines, to understand how life works and living things function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more than just people in this world with much more diversity out there. I want students to see what I see \u2013 a fascination for living things. I see too many examples in the world where a lack of understanding of biology can be detrimental to the environment and us. Scientific literacy helps people make good choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager he saw first hand natural areas getting destroyed, \u201cand no one cared.\u201d That started his interest in biology and he came to Augsburg because \u201cit is a school that values teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Capman said the biology program at Augsburg puts much effort into giving students nontrivial research experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to challenge students to not just memorize facts, but to understand how everything fits together, to see the connections, to see the bigger picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>B.A. University of Illinois-Chicago<\/li>\n<li>Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Areas of Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ecology<\/li>\n<li>Evolution<\/li>\n<li>Invertebrate Biology<\/li>\n<li>Marine Biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Capman \u201creally, really likes biology\u201d and thinks it\u2019s important for all students, of all disciplines, to understand how life works and living things function. \u201cThere\u2019s more than just people in this world with much more diversity out there. I want students to see what I see \u2013 a fascination for living things. I see &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46201,"parent":0,"menu_order":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4913","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47827,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4913\/revisions\/47827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}