{"id":219086,"date":"2016-01-21T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=219086"},"modified":"2016-01-21T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:00:15","slug":"natl-geographic-society-scientist-to-speak-on-origins-of-chamorros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/natl-geographic-society-scientist-to-speak-on-origins-of-chamorros\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat\u2019l Geographic Society scientist to speak on origins of Chamorros"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219092\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vilar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-219092\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vilar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vilar\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vilar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of Guam welcomes Dr. Miguel Vilar, project manager and scientific lead for the National Geographic Society\u2019s Genographic Project, as the 29th speaker in the UOG Presidential Lecture Series.<\/p>\n<p>Vilar\u2019s lecture, entitled \u201cResearching the Origins and Genetic Distinctiveness of Chamorros: A Bi-Parental Analysis\u201d will be held at 5:30pm on Tuesday, Jan. 26, in the College of Liberal Arts &amp; Social Sciences (CLASS) Lecture Hall on the UOG Campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Miguel Vilar will provide us with new information about the genetic inheritance of modern day Chamorros in order to better comprehend the origins of our people,\u201d said Dr. Robert Underwood, UOG president. \u201cI consider this one of the most important lectures in the calendar of the Presidential Lecture Series at UOG.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Geographic Society\u2019s Genographic Project is a multi-year genetic anthropology study that aims to map global human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is open to the public. Seating is limited. For more information about the lecture, contact Louise Toves at lmtoves@triton.uog.edu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Lecturer<\/strong><br \/>\nVilar is the science manager for National Geographic\u2019s Genographic Project. Vilar earned his Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Haverford College in 1997 and Master of Arts in Journalism from Columbia University in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>After several years of science writing for Popular Science, Science World, and the Smithsonian\u2019s National Zoological Park, he returned to school and earned his Master of Science in Biomedical Anthropology, Master of Arts in Anthropology, and Doctorate in Anthropology from Binghamton University, in 2006, 2007 and 2010, respectively.\u00a0 After earning his doctorate, Vilar led several projects across Latin America for the Genographic Project\u2019s North America Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Vilar is a molecular anthropologist and science writer. His fieldwork has taken him to remote places throughout the South Pacific, East Africa, Mesoamerica, and the Caribbean. In the laboratory he researches the modern genetic diversity of human populations from Micronesia, Melanesia, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Miguel publishes in several anthropology and genetics journals, as well as popular science magazines. He also writes the Genographic Project Blog for the National Geographic Society website. <em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Guam welcomes Dr. Miguel Vilar, project manager and scientific lead for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":219092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9237,3273,9238,67],"class_list":["post-219086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific","tag-genographic-project","tag-miguel-vilar","tag-national-geographic-society","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}