{"id":6440,"date":"2025-09-11T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=6440"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:05:31","slug":"jourdan-watson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/profile\/jourdan-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jourdan Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the supervision of Helen Fawcett, Jourdan worked with Gabriel Hubbard on building and programming a robotic hand. In addition to coding the behavior, Jourdan helped developed robotic hand-focused curriculum for use in middle and high school classrooms. <\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">More about My Experience<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Jourdan recommends that future REUs make the most of their experience in Boston and use transferable skills they learn in the lab, within their education. He also says that Boston&#8217;s transportation system is amongst the best, especially when it comes to exploring the city.<\/p>\n<p>After completing his experience, Jourdan graduated with a BS in Mathematics from Fort Valley State University. He went on to obtain a MS in Applied Statistics from Grand Valley State University. He is currently continuing his education at Penn State.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h4>Learn more about Jourdan and his work below!<\/h4>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jourdan and Gabe\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCyHRTDdn4A?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24547,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24547"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6969,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6440\/revisions\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}