{"id":9121,"date":"2020-05-29T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"the-researchs-covid-hurdle-jeff-skevington-adapts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/the-researchs-covid-hurdle-jeff-skevington-adapts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Research&#8217;s Covid Hurdle: Jeff Skevington Adapts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Research&#8217;s Covid Hurdle: Jeff Skevington Adapts\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>For months now, many of us have begun working from home and have adapted to the new challenges but for some these have been insurmountable. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jeff-skevington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Jeff Skevington<\/a>, an entomologist working for Agriculture Univeristy and an Adjunct Research Professor in Biology, has had to overcome major obstacles in order to continue his research. Jeff was required to set up a virtual lab so his summer students and PhD candidates could continue their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more about Jeff Skevington&#8217;s research and how other&#8217;s a adapting to these challenges at: <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/why-working-from-home-might-not-suit-everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/why-working-from-home-might-not-suit-everyone\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For months now, many of us have begun working from home and have adapted to the new challenges but for some these have been insurmountable. Dr. Jeff Skevington, an entomologist working for Agriculture Univeristy and an Adjunct Research Professor in Biology, has had to overcome major obstacles in order to continue his research. Jeff was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9127,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions\/9127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}