{"id":1994,"date":"2009-08-13T10:36:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T15:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2009-08-13T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T15:36:44","slug":"political-science-prof-recognized-by-texas-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/08\/political-science-prof-recognized-by-texas-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Political science prof recognized by Texas Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"bullockschol-aug09\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bullockschol-aug09.jpg\" alt=\"Bullock Scholars\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>Political science professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/political_science\/index.php?id=16520\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. James Curry<\/a> was recognized earlier this year by the Texas Legislature for his work at Baylor, as the House passed a resolution honoring his service to students. A former chair of the department, Curry now serves as the Bob Bullock Professor of Public Policy and Administration and directs the Bob Bullock Scholars Program, a highly competitive program that places Baylor students as interns with the state legislature each summer. (That&#8217;s him at right with some recent Bullock Scholars.)<\/p>\n<p>Curry also heads up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2009\/07\/program-connects-alumni-with-student-interns-in-nations-capital\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C., internship program for Baylor students<\/a> we wrote about earlier this summer. For his work leading such programs, the House particularly recognized him for &#8220;helping to prepare future leaders for the Lone Star State.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.tx.us\/tlodocs\/81R\/billtext\/html\/HR02747F.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The entire resolution can be read here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Dr. Curry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political science professor Dr. James Curry was recognized earlier this year by the Texas Legislature for his work at Baylor, as the House passed a resolution honoring his service to students. A former chair of the department, Curry now serves as the Bob Bullock Professor of Public Policy and Administration and directs the Bob Bullock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}