{"id":164,"date":"2010-05-01T07:15:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T07:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=164"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:32:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:32:58","slug":"biology-awards-at-the-hsc-final-convovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/05\/01\/biology-awards-at-the-hsc-final-convovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Awards at the HSC Final Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Final Convocation took place on April 22 which gave the biology department the opportunity to honor some of its students for their hard work over the past few years. \u00a0First, the College gave its annual\u00a0John Peter Mettauer Award for Excellence in Research to department chair Dr. Alex Werth for his 18 years (and counting) of tireless work at HSC on the physiology of whales. Next,\u00a0the James R.T. Hewett Award was given for excellence in and service to the department. \u00a0In recognition for their hard work both in the classroom and in independent research within the department, this year&#8217;s Hewett award was split between Curtis Read &#8217;10 and Chad Pleasants &#8217;10.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_165\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/read-curtis_0155.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/read-curtis_0155-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/read-curtis_0155-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/read-curtis_0155-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/read-curtis_0155-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/read-curtis_0155-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/read-curtis_0155-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/read-curtis_0155-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biology Department chair Dr. Alex Werth and Curtis Read &#039;10<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_166\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pleasants-chad_0156.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-166 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pleasants-chad_0156-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Werth and Chad Pleasants '10\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pleasants-chad_0156-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pleasants-chad_0156-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pleasants-chad_0156-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pleasants-chad_0156-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pleasants-chad_0156-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pleasants-chad_0156-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Werth and Chad Pleasants &#039;10<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both Read and Pleasants plan to pursue laboratory positions for the next academic year with the goal of beginning graduate study in 2011-12, Read in microbiology\/tropical disease and Pleasants in cell biology.<\/p>\n<p>The H.B. Overcash award was also given in recognition of the top pre-med student in the rising senior class. \u00a0This year&#8217;s award was won by Chris Pryor &#8217;11.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_167\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pryor-christopher_0157.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pryor-christopher_0157-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Pryor '11 and Dr. Werth \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pryor-christopher_0157-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pryor-christopher_0157-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pryor-christopher_0157-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pryor-christopher_0157-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pryor-christopher_0157-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/pryor-christopher_0157-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Pryor &#039;11 and Dr. Werth<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Final Convocation took place on April 22 which gave the biology department the opportunity to honor some of its students for their hard work over the past few years. \u00a0First, the College gave its annual\u00a0John Peter Mettauer Award &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/05\/01\/biology-awards-at-the-hsc-final-convovation\/\">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-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}