{"id":763,"date":"2018-10-22T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle1stg.wpenginepowered.com\/mse\/?p=763"},"modified":"2023-10-26T19:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T19:01:04","slug":"mse-senior-lecturer-chris-wetteland-becomes-a-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/mse-senior-lecturer-chris-wetteland-becomes-a-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"MSE Senior Lecturer Chris Wetteland Becomes a PhD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-764 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/chriswetteland_phddefense_2018_1019_02.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Wetteland stands with Hap McSween, at the conclusion of his PhD dissertation defense.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/chriswetteland_phddefense_2018_1019_02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/chriswetteland_phddefense_2018_1019_02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/chriswetteland_phddefense_2018_1019_02-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Wetteland, a Senior Lecturer in Materials Science &amp; Engineering successfully defended his dissertation in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences on Friday, October 19, 2018. His advisor was Prof. Hap McSween. Congratulations on obtaining your PhD, Chris!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Wetteland, a Senior Lecturer in Materials Science &amp; Engineering successfully defended his PhD dissertation on Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[86,215,216],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades","category-faculty","tag-chris-wetteland","tag-hap-mcsween","tag-phd-defense"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MSE Senior Lecturer Chris Wetteland Becomes a PhD! - Materials Science and Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chris Wetteland, a Senior Lecturer in Materials Science &amp; Engineering successfully defended his PhD dissertation on Friday!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/mse-senior-lecturer-chris-wetteland-becomes-a-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MSE Senior Lecturer Chris Wetteland Becomes a PhD! 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