{"id":288,"date":"2013-11-13T16:28:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1976classnews\/?p=75"},"modified":"2015-05-21T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:45:53","slug":"ann-stroink-presented-2010-iwu-commencement-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/11\/13\/ann-stroink-presented-2010-iwu-commencement-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Stroink &#8217;76 presented 2010 IWU Commencement Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/11\/Ann-Stroink-76.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/11\/Ann-Stroink-76.jpg\" alt=\"Ann Stroink 76\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ann Stroink, \u00a0a board-certified neurosurgeon,\u00a0presented the 2010 Commencement address. \u00a0Stroink used her extensive medical training to bring the concept of &#8220;lifelong learning&#8221; to graduates. Originally, she said, the brain was considered a fixed organ, without the ability to change and grow, but medical science has learned the brain can continue to explore and adapt throughout a human&#8217;s life. In her speech titled &#8220;Cerebral Plasticity: Lifelong Learning,&#8221; Stroink used the very real example of a patient with a tumor relearning to speak in order to show the incredible plasticity of the brain and how a person can learn throughout a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Illinois Wesleyan is your partner for life, and with that partner you will learn what lifelong learning is all about,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the thrill of learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can hear the audio of Ann&#8217;s introduction by President Wilson and her speech if you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/commencement\/10Speakers\/AnnStroink_Commencement2010.mp3\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Stroink, \u00a0a board-certified neurosurgeon,\u00a0presented the 2010 Commencement address. \u00a0Stroink used her extensive medical training to bring the concept of &#8220;lifelong learning&#8221; to graduates. Originally, she said, the brain was considered a fixed organ, without the ability to change and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/11\/13\/ann-stroink-presented-2010-iwu-commencement-address\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iwu-memories","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}