{"id":766,"date":"2017-06-02T14:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leeuwebpages.wpengine.com\/rwest\/?page_id=766"},"modified":"2023-12-22T19:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T19:28:11","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/about-me\/webpage_photo2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-768\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-768 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/files\/2017\/06\/Webpage_Photo2-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #008000\">Dr. Robert P. West<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #008000\">Professor of Biology, Assistant Chair &#8211;\u00a0 Retired<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Dr. Robert West, Professor of Biology, earned his B.S., M.S. degrees from Clemson University and his Ph.D. from LSU. Since joining the faculty in January 1990, he has taught a variety of classes including Animal Biology, General Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Health Perspectives: Cancer and AIDS, Medical Terminology, and Entomology. Most recently, he taught primarily non-science majors in Human Biology and managed majors in Health Professions Internship. Dr. West also served as an Assistant Department Chair. Dr. West&#8217;s intellectual interests cover a wide range in both academic (entomology, arachnology, learning styles, and strengths) and non-academic (Marvel universe, fountain pens, art, and exercise) areas. He retired after 32 years at Lee in December, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #008000\"><strong><u>Student Involvement<\/u><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">In his most recent teaching assignments, Dr. West interacted with both non-science students and majors alike. In addition, he interacted with our majors in his capacity as an administrator as well. Dr. West continues to serve as a Strengths Vocational Advisor (SVA) with the Center for Calling and Career on the Lee campus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert P. West Professor of Biology, Assistant Chair &#8211;\u00a0 Retired Dr. Robert West, Professor of Biology, earned his B.S., M.S. degrees from Clemson University and his Ph.D. from LSU. Since joining the faculty in January 1990, he has taught a variety of classes including Animal Biology, General Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Health Perspectives: Cancer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-766","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}