{"id":1316,"date":"2012-03-17T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T18:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2014-04-04T23:08:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T03:08:35","slug":"first-knox-professorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2012\/03\/17\/first-knox-professorship\/","title":{"rendered":"First Knox Professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Robert and Jeanne Knox Foundation gives BU $2.5 million to create a professorship. School of Public Health Professor Jonathon Simon is named the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2012\/trustee-chair-robert-knox-endows-professorship\/\">inaugural Robert A. Knox Professor<\/a>. Simon, who leads BU\u2019s Center for Global Health &amp; Development (CGHD), has spent a quarter-century battling childhood illnesses and death in the developing world. The focus on urban health, Knox says, is appropriate for big-city BU, \u201cwhich in some ways has in its own DNA the problems of living in an urban environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Robert and Jeanne Knox Foundation gives BU $2.5 million to create a professorship. School of Public Health Professor Jonathon Simon is named the inaugural Robert A. Knox Professor. Simon, who leads BU\u2019s Center for Global Health &amp; Development (CGHD), has spent a quarter-century battling childhood illnesses and death in the developing world. The focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}