{"id":8438,"date":"2017-01-19T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8438"},"modified":"2017-04-19T23:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T22:51:40","slug":"ekpenyong-dr-thomas-essien","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ekpenyong-dr-thomas-essien\/","title":{"rendered":"EKPENYONG, Dr. Thomas Essien"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D, agriculturist, university teacher, born January 27, 1939, Opobo (now Ikot Abasi), Akwa Ibom State; married Georgina Dien Aniyom 1971, four sons; Education: St Patrick&#8217;s Col lege, Calabar, 1954-58, School of Agriculture, Umudike, 1959, School of Agriculture, Ibadan, 1960-62, Catholic University, Piecenza, Italy, 1963-68, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA, 1975-78; Research fellow, Catholic University, Piacenza, 1966-68; Lec turer, University of Ibadan, 1969-75; Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA, 1975-78; Lecturer\/Associate Professor, University of Ibadan, 1978-86; Visiting Lec turer, University of Calabar, 1980-81; Visiting Scholar, University of Cross River State, Uyo, 1985-86; Head, Department of Agriculture, University of Cross River State, Uyo, 1986-87; Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Cross River State, Uyo, 1987; member, New York Academy of Science; member, Phi Tau Sigma of the American Institute of Food Science and Technology, 1978; member, American Society of Animal Science; member, American Oil Chemical Society; member, American Institute of Food Science and Technology; Hobbies: sports, music, drama; Official address: Department of Animal Science, University of Ibadan; Telephone: (022) 400550; Home: 1 Sokoto Crescent, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State; Telephone: (022)400550, extension 1929.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,2410],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8438","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-agriculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}