  {"id":6703,"date":"2018-05-15T06:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T22:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/researchers-focus-professor-teri-balser\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:08:33","slug":"researchers-focus-professor-teri-balser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/researchers-focus-professor-teri-balser\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers in focus: Professor Teri Balser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Professor Teri Balser, whose frontier-challenging leadership in teaching and research across microbiology and other environmental studies disciplines has seen her awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy career has been about exploration and exploring the unknown and pushing the limits and challenging our beliefs, first in the natural world as an ecosystem scientist and soil scientist, and then eventually in the human world as a teacher and then a leader and then an administrator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch our interview:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Professor Teri Balser | Pushing the limits in research and leadership\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7biAFEsytH8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Teri Balser\u2019s frontier-challenging leadership in teaching and research across environmental studies disciplines has seen her awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":6704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-technology"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ John Curtin Distinguished Professors","content":"<p>The title of <a href=\"https:\/\/secretariat.curtin.edu.au\/awards\/distinguished-visiting-professor.cfm\">John Curtin Distinguished Professor<\/a> is Curtin\u2019s highest honour for academic staff. 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