{"id":12973,"date":"2025-03-27T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/?p=12973"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:12:40","slug":"brian-gentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/brian-gentry\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Gentry, Associate Professor of Physics, 2013-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"edgtf-dropcaps edgtf-normal\" style=\"color: #e6b013\">\n\tB<\/span>rian Gentry\u2019s innovative impact on the Hollins classroom has been profound. His multidisciplinary approach to teaching physics and how technology and the classroom can intersect helped create new teaching standards. Gentry taught a calculus- based physics course and created a course in film studies, \u201cWomen Scientists and Doctors in Film.\u201d He was central in Hollins\u2019 effort to pivot academically during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading the move to online lab work and flipped classroom efforts to alleviate student anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Under Gentry\u2019s guidance and unwavering mentorship of the Hollins Pre-med Program, more than a dozen aspiring students have enrolled in medical or physician\u2019s assistant school. Students also had his impressive research as a standard for their own scientific careers. His chapter \u201cMechanical Properties of Active Biopolymer Networks\u201d in <em>Soft Matter and Biomaterials on the Nanoscale<\/em> (World Scientific, 2020) advanced the field\u2019s understanding of fundamental and application-inspired aspects of soft and bio-nanomaterials.<\/p>\n<p>Equally as passionate about teaching and communicating physics to future physicists and non-physicists alike, Gentry shared his interests in the many intersections between physics and the biological sciences with his students and colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rian Gentry\u2019s innovative impact on the Hollins classroom has been profound. His multidisciplinary approach to teaching physics and how technology and the classroom can intersect helped create new teaching standards. Gentry taught a calculus- based physics course and created a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,131],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-12973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in_the_loop","category-retirees","tag-winter-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13218,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions\/13218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}