{"id":13683,"date":"2012-11-14T20:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=13683"},"modified":"2025-01-29T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T21:55:04","slug":"drs-shor-gage-win-gates-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/11\/drs-shor-gage-win-gates-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Drs. Shor &amp; Gage Win Gates Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gates-shor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13731 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"gates-shor\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gates-shor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"141\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 126px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 126\/141;\" \/><\/a>Two UConn professor,\u00a0Drs. <strong>Leslie M. Shor<\/strong> of Chemical &amp; Biomolecular Engineering and <strong>Daniel J. Gage<\/strong>\u00a0of Molecular &amp; Cell Biology, have been awarded a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandchallenges.org\/Explorations\/Pages\/Introduction.aspx\">Grand Challenges Explor<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gates-gage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13732 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"gates-gage\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gates-gage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"157\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 140px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 140\/157;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandchallenges.org\/Explorations\/Pages\/Introduction.aspx\">ations<\/a> grant, an initiative funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/Pages\/home.aspx\">Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>, to conduct\u00a0innovative global health and development research project intended to increase crop yields in developing countries through the expanded use of beneficial bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>Please read the full announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2012-11\/uoc-ur111312.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two UConn professor, Drs. Leslie M. Shor (Chemical &amp; Biomolecular Engineering) and Daniel J. Gage (Molecular &amp; Cell Biology), have been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations grant, an initiative funded by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, to conduct innovative global health and development research project intended to increase crop yields in developing countries through the expanded use of beneficial bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-13683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 17:19:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224678,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683\/revisions\/224678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13683"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=13683"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}