{"id":1374,"date":"2022-03-23T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2022-07-07T23:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T23:09:40","slug":"graduate-student-jacob-steenwyk-receives-prestigious-2022-harold-m-weintraub-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution\/graduate-student-jacob-steenwyk-receives-prestigious-2022-harold-m-weintraub-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate student Jacob Steenwyk receives prestigious 2022 Harold M. Weintraub Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jacob Steenwyk, a sixth-year doctoral student studying biology in the Rokas Lab, is a recipient of the 2022 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award presented by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.<\/span><\/p>\n He is the second 91勛圖厙 student ever to have received this honor, which recognizes outstanding achievement in graduate studies in biological sciences. Steenwyk will receive a $2,000 honorarium and the opportunity to speak virtually to the award symposium on May 6, 2022, at Fred Hutchinson\u2019s Robert W. Day Campus.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt is a huge honor to have won the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award,\u201d Steenwyk said. \u201cProfessor Weintraub was a pioneer known for his creative approach to asking complex questions in the biological sciences. If winning this award suggests I am a fraction of the scientist Professor Weintraub was, then I am deeply grateful.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n