{"593637":{"#nid":"593637","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The call of the wild","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat kind of professor turns\u0026nbsp;his back on hard-earned tenure\u0026nbsp;so he can\u0026nbsp;hang out with reptiles and amphibians at a city zoo? If you\u0026#39;re \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-mendelson\u0022\u003EJoseph Mendelson\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and you know that city zoo\u0026nbsp;has\u0026nbsp;a good reputation for research,\u0026nbsp;then you jump at the chance and you ignore those\u0026nbsp;warning of career suicide. (Besides, the zoo\u0026nbsp;also offers\u0026nbsp;an adjunct appointment\u0026nbsp;at a nearby world-class academic institution in Midtown.)\u0026nbsp;That\u0026#39;s what Mendelson\u0026nbsp;did 14 years ago, and he\u0026#39;s never looked back.\u0026nbsp;Mendelson,\u0026nbsp;an adjunct associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences, is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zooatlanta.org\/leader-expert\/joe-mendelson-phd\/\u0022\u003Edirector of herpetological research\u003C\/a\u003E at Zoo Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-07-21 17:09:03","changed_gmt":"2017-07-24 15:36:20","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"FITRE","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/357\/6348\/326","dateline":{"date":"2017-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"593638":{"id":"593638","type":"image","title":"Joseph Mendelson","body":null,"created":"1500657747","gmt_created":"2017-07-21 17:22:27","changed":"1500657747","gmt_changed":"2017-07-21 17:22:27","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226293","name":"Joseph Mendelson.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joseph%20Mendelson.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joseph%20Mendelson.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":53312,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Joseph%20Mendelson.jpg?itok=5YmyP7Es"}}},"media_ids":["593638"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"174968","name":"Joseph Mendelson"},{"id":"6765","name":"zoo atlanta"},{"id":"117801","name":"reptiles"},{"id":"174969","name":"amphibians"},{"id":"174970","name":"herpetological research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}