  {"id":9600,"date":"2020-03-03T14:06:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9600"},"modified":"2020-04-16T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:09:48","slug":"news-press-now-western-helps-stem-scholars-and-employers-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/03\/news-press-now-western-helps-stem-scholars-and-employers-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Western helps STEM scholars and employers connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df380b7a-5dc3-11ea-85c3-57f8d9b0e896\/5e5f1913503f8.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C842\" width=\"1200\" height=\"842\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>In an effort to bring local employers and scholars of science, technology, engineering and mathematics together, º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø hosted its 7th annual Missouri Regional Industrial Science and Engineering Networking and Employment Event on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>The event brought in around 200 people, with 70 local employers, 80 students and more than 25 alumni attending the event. Among employers present were Altec Industries, Sealed Air, Hillyard Technical Center, Sekuisui Xeno Tech and LD Data Solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Dr. Mike Ducey, chairman of the university\u2019s chemistry department, said the event\u2019s goal was to help break down barriers of networking for employers and potential employees.<\/p>\n<p>Read more and watch the video version of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/western-helps-stem-scholars-and-employers-connect\/article_dfcd8282-5d59-11ea-8907-eb0602255e81.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to bring local employers and scholars of science, technology, engineering and mathematics together, º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø hosted its 7th annual Missouri Regional Industrial Science and Engineering Networking and Employment Event on Tuesday evening. The event brought in around 200 people, with 70 local employers, 80 students and more than 25 alumni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9601,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions\/9601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}