{"id":3,"date":"2011-08-08T20:43:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/homepage\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T19:24:03","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Donald J. &#8220;Don&#8221; Pickert<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Program Specialist<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Physics &amp; Astronomy Department<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-my\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2011\/08\/20135159\/IMG_3452-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-182\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2011\/08\/IMG_3452-1-476x650.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3452\" width=\"476\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2011\/08\/IMG_3452-1-476x650.jpg 476w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2011\/08\/IMG_3452-1-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2011\/08\/IMG_3452-1-768x1048.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2011\/08\/IMG_3452-1.jpg 938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">Since 2002, I have been working as an Administrative Assistant for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.vanderbilt.edu\/\">Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy<\/a> at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/\">Vanderbilt University.<\/a> My primary duties are to assist the Department Chair Julia Velkovska, Ph.D., and the Directors of Graduate Studies, Alfredo Gurralo, Ph.D. (Physics) and Jonathan Bird, Ph.D. (Astrophysics) and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Robert Scherrer. Ph.D.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">Prior to this, I worked at\u00a0Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a year for\u00a0Peter Konrad, M.D., Ph.D. in Neurosurgery, who has done pioneering work in\u00a0Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery, and prior to that for the\u00a0General Surgery Division (Drs. Sharp, Richards &amp; Holzman) for 5 years. Before that I worked as a supervisor in the Cafeteria for 4 years. I did take a year off in 1994 to travel on the road to play music.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">A member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/index.php\">University Staff Advisory Council<\/a>\u00a0from 2003 to 2020 and recipient of the\u00a02006 Commodore Awar<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/root\/vumc.php?site=celebrateus&amp;doc=11300\">d<\/a>, Vanderbilt&#8217;s highest staff honor.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. &#8220;Don&#8221; Pickert Program Specialist Physics &amp; Astronomy Department Since 2002, I have been working as an Administrative Assistant for the\u00a0Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy at\u00a0Vanderbilt University. My primary duties are to assist the Department Chair Julia Velkovska, Ph.D., and the Directors of Graduate Studies, Alfredo Gurralo, Ph.D. (Physics) and Jonathan Bird, Ph.D. (Astrophysics)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}