{"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":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">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<figure id=\"attachment_1405519\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1405519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1405519\" style=\"border: 0px;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;line-height: inherit;font-family: inherit;font-size: 22.7167px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: middle;max-width: 100%;height: auto;width: 226px\" src=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/files\/Jacob_Steenwyk-600x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Jacob Steenwyk\" width=\"226\" height=\"226\" data-attachment-id=\"1405519\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2022\/03\/22\/graduate-student-steenwyk-receives-prestigious-2022-harold-m-weintraub-award\/jacob_steenwyk-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/files\/Jacob_Steenwyk.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"768,768\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1544061900&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jacob Steenwyk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jacob Steenwyk&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/files\/Jacob_Steenwyk-600x600.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/files\/Jacob_Steenwyk.jpeg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1405519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Steenwyk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He is the second Â鶹APP 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><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\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><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2022\/03\/22\/graduate-student-steenwyk-receives-prestigious-2022-harold-m-weintraub-award\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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