{"id":8551,"date":"2022-04-12T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/?p=8551"},"modified":"2022-04-12T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:11:26","slug":"aja-watkins-wins-buch-graduate-student-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/2022\/04\/12\/aja-watkins-wins-buch-graduate-student-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Aja Watkins Wins BUCH Graduate Student Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Fourth-year graduate student\u00a0<a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/profile\/aja-watkins\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/profile\/aja-watkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/profile\/aja-watkins\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aja Watkins<\/a>\u00a0has been selected by the\u00a0<a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU Center for the Humanities<\/a>\u00a0to receive a Graduate Student Award this year! The Graduate Student Awards are incredibly competitive and awarded to students doing excellent work in the humanities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aja&#8217;s research focuses on philosophy of science, especially a combination of philosophy of the historical sciences, philosophy of climate science, and philosophy of modeling, as well as philosophy of biology and feminist philosophy of science. Her dissertation explores the philosophical implications of using paleoclimate episodes as analogues for contemporary climate change. In addition to her outstanding work as a student and philosopher, Aja is also Co-President of the Graduate Student Association in the Department of Philosophy for the 2021-22 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Aja!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-year graduate student\u00a0Aja Watkins\u00a0has been selected by the\u00a0BU Center for the Humanities\u00a0to receive a Graduate Student Award this year! The Graduate Student Awards are incredibly competitive and awarded to students doing excellent work in the humanities. Aja&#8217;s research focuses on philosophy of science, especially a combination of philosophy of the historical sciences, philosophy of climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":933,"featured_media":7434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,28,12,27],"tags":[57,23,13,56,46,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8553,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions\/8553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}