{"id":1273,"date":"2014-04-30T21:47:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:39:14","slug":"biology-awards-at-h-scs-final-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2014\/04\/30\/biology-awards-at-h-scs-final-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology awards at H-SC&#8217;s Final Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the College holds a ceremony to honor outstanding student achievement over the past academic year. \u00a0The Biology Department gives two awards at this ceremony each year. \u00a0This first award, the James R.T. Hewett Award, is given to the graduating senior &#8220;&#8230;for promise in research and meritorious service to the department.&#8221; \u00a0This year&#8217;s award went to J. Drake Bishop &#8217;14, who has served the Biology Department since his first semester on campus in both support and academic capacities:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1274\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/Johnathon-D.-Bishop-J.R.T.-Hewett-Award.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1274\" alt=\"Dr. Ed Lowry, Assistant Professor of Biology, presents Drake Bishop '14 with the Hewett Award\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/Johnathon-D.-Bishop-J.R.T.-Hewett-Award-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Ed Lowry, Assistant Professor of Biology, presents Drake Bishop &#8217;14 with the Hewett Award<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The H.B. Overcash Award is given each year to the top premedical student in the rising senior class. \u00a0This year&#8217;s award was split between Chris Ferrante &#8217;15 and Aaron Gilani &#8217;15.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1275\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/Chris-Ferrante-H.B.-Overcash-Award.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1275\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1275\" alt=\"Dr. Lowry with Chris Ferrante '15\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/Chris-Ferrante-H.B.-Overcash-Award-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Lowry with Chris Ferrante &#8217;15<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1276\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/Aaron-Gilani-H.B.-Overcash-Award.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1276\" alt=\"Dr. Lowry and Aaron Gilani '15\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/Aaron-Gilani-H.B.-Overcash-Award-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Lowry and Aaron Gilani &#8217;15<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Biology Department was also proud to witness another of its graduating seniors, Thomas Isom &#8217;14, receive the Student Government Outstanding Club\/Organization Award on behalf of Hampden-Sydney&#8217;s Baptist Collegiate Ministries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1277\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/Thomas-Isom-SG-Outstanding-club-and-org-Award1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1277\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1277\" alt=\"Damien Sharp '15 presents the Student Government Outstanding Club\/Organization Award to Thomas Isom '14\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/Thomas-Isom-SG-Outstanding-club-and-org-Award1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damien Sharp &#8217;15 presents the Student Government Outstanding Club\/Organization Award to Thomas Isom &#8217;14<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the College holds a ceremony to honor outstanding student achievement over the past academic year. \u00a0The Biology Department gives two awards at this ceremony each year. \u00a0This first award, the James R.T. Hewett Award, is given to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2014\/04\/30\/biology-awards-at-h-scs-final-convocation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}