{"id":220619,"date":"2016-02-11T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=220619"},"modified":"2016-02-11T04:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:00:25","slug":"220619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/220619\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamorro DNA research resources online"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220620\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vilar.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-220620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-220620\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vilar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vilar\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vilar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council wishes to advise the public that additional resources related to the recent presentation by visiting molecular anthropologist Dr. Miguel Vilar are now available on its website (www.northernmarianashumanities.org).<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Dr. Vilar provided an overview of the findings of his DNA research that explores the genetic history and distinctiveness of the Chamorro people. A sizable crowd numbering over 120 attended this event.<\/p>\n<p>For those wishing to view these additional resources, please go to the council\u2019s webpage and click on \u201cChamorro DNA Research\u201d in the Featured Programs and Events box.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can access the PowerPoint slides from Dr. Vilar\u2019s presentation, a copy of a journal article on this subject, and Dr. Vilar\u2019s recent interview on the Council\u2019s \u201cYour Humanities Half-Hour\u201d radio program.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Vilar, who directs the National Geographic\u2019s \u201cGenographic Project,\u201d is currently exploring the feasibility of undertaking a second phase of research in the CNMI to expand his sample size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council wishes to advise the public that additional resources related to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":220620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3602,9237,3273,8156],"class_list":["post-220619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dna","tag-genographic-project","tag-miguel-vilar","tag-national-geographic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220619","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=220619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}