{"id":1662,"date":"2016-04-25T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T20:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:25:32","slug":"biology-students-faculty-recognized-for-excellence-at-h-sc-2016-final-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2016\/04\/25\/biology-students-faculty-recognized-for-excellence-at-h-sc-2016-final-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology students, faculty recognized for excellence at H-SC 2016 Final Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biology department was well represented at the College\u2019s 2016 Final Convocation ceremony, held each April to honor the achievements of members of the Hampden-Sydney community over the past year. \u00a0The Biology Department gives two awards at this event. \u00a0The first, the R.T. Hewitt Biology Award, is given to the graduating senior who has distinguished himself in his work in the classroom and the laboratory over his 4 years at the College. \u00a0This year\u2019s recipient, Christopher Hawk ’16, has worked extensively with Professors Ed Lowry and Mike Wolyniak\u00a0over the past two years on ecological and molecular biological research studying the microbiome of hops. \u00a0His work was instrumental in the development in a new research-based introductory laboratory course at Hampden-Sydney. \u00a0Chris plans to begin work next year in the field of environmental consulting.<\/p>\n

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Biology Department Chair Dr. Alex Werth presents the Hewitt Award to Christopher Hawk ’16<\/p><\/div>\n

Next, the department presented the Overcash Award, a prize awarded to the top junior in the department who is planning a career in the health sciences. \u00a0This year\u2019s recipient, James Lau ’17, was recently named the third Goldwater Scholar in Hampden-Sydney history and\u00a0will undertake research this summer with Professor Kristian Hargadon ’01 (the College’s first Goldwater Scholar) and will begin study at Eastern Virginia Medical School in the fall of 2017 as part of the early admission articulation agreement between the two institutions.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Werth presents the Overcast Prize to James Lau ’17<\/p><\/div>\n

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Finally, Professor Kristian Hargadon\u00a0received the John Peter Mettauer Award for Research Excellence\u00a0in recognition of his extensive and productive research program on the study of melanoma in a mouse model.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Kristian Hargadon receives the 2016 Mettauer Award from Dean of the Faculty Mike McDermott<\/p><\/div>\n

Faculty from the Biology Department have won the Mettauer Award 3 of the last 4 years and 4 times in the past 7 years (Dr. Alex Werth-2010, Dr. Mike Wolyniak-2013, Dr. Bill Shear-2015, Dr. Kristian Hargadon-2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The biology department was well represented at the College\u2019s 2016 Final Convocation ceremony, held each April to honor the achievements of members of the Hampden-Sydney community over the past year. \u00a0The Biology Department gives two awards at this event. \u00a0The … Continue reading →<\/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-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","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=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}