{"id":1714,"date":"2021-12-02T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2021-12-02T18:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:52:14","slug":"an-ode-to-francis-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/an-ode-to-francis-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Francis Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Chris Unterberger<br \/>\nSchool of Pharmacy<br \/>\n2021<br \/>\nPoem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Longtime NIH director, Francis Collins, announced his resignation of the post last week. For the past twelve years, Dr. Collins has served as the head of the most important health institution in the nation while guiding the country\u2019s scientific research under three presidents. Before becoming director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project in its daunting (and successful) mission to sequence the human genome. During his stint as NIH director, the agency\u2019s budget grew by over $11 billion and funded the nation\u2019s top labs in Alzheimer\u2019s, cancer, opioid, and vaccine research. Throughout his tenure, Collins maintained and promoted his deep-seeded Christian faith to the scientific and evangelical communities. As a fellow Christian, Collins provided a role model to me for what a scientist can do with their faith. Because of Collins, I have felt confident in sharing my own faith with peers. For that, I introduce the following Ode to Francis Collins.<\/p>\n<p>To a young Mr. Collins,<br \/>\nA na\u00efve,<br \/>\nLike me,<br \/>\nStudent of the world.<br \/>\nYou walked along genomes<br \/>\nAnd leapt between chromosomes,<br \/>\nNamed the unknown,<br \/>\nAnd defended a doozy.<br \/>\nTo a young Mr. Collins,<br \/>\nThank you for learning.<\/p>\n<p>To a young Dr. Collins,<br \/>\nAt home in Michigan,<br \/>\nYou put genes in your focus.<br \/>\nHuntington\u2019s Disease<br \/>\nAnd cystic fibrosis:<br \/>\nNothing was off limits<br \/>\nTo a young buck like you.<br \/>\nTo a young Dr. Collins<br \/>\nThank you for searching.<\/p>\n<p>To a wise Dr. Collins,<br \/>\nThe NIH you called home,<br \/>\nYou made it your mission<br \/>\nTo map the genome.<br \/>\nSuccessful as you were\u2014<br \/>\nI\u2019m sure you\u2019ll agree\u2014<br \/>\nYou never forgot<br \/>\nStudents like me.<br \/>\nTo a wise Dr. Collins,<br \/>\nThank you for leading.<\/p>\n<p>To a wise Mr. Collins,<br \/>\nThough you step away<br \/>\nFrom the helm of your mission,<br \/>\nYou have plenty left to give<br \/>\nThrough faith and admission.<br \/>\nYou never let go<br \/>\nOf your Christian beliefs,<br \/>\nPromoting them<br \/>\nTo the science elite.<br \/>\nIn the face of derision<br \/>\nYou never lost face<br \/>\nScience is better<br \/>\nWhen you incorporate faith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Unterberger School of Pharmacy 2021 Poem &nbsp; Longtime NIH director, Francis Collins, announced his resignation of the post last week. For the past twelve years, Dr. Collins has served as the head of the most important health institution in the nation while guiding the country\u2019s scientific research under three presidents. Before becoming director of&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/an-ode-to-francis-collins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,10],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2021-issue","category-writing","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}