{"id":962,"date":"2013-05-20T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=962"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:45:43","slug":"yonathan-ararso-13-receives-highest-research-honor-at-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2013\/05\/20\/yonathan-ararso-13-receives-highest-research-honor-at-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Yonathan Ararso &#8217;13 Receives Highest Research Honor at Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yonathan Ararso, a biology major in the class of 2013, was recently awarded the Samuel S. Jones Phi Beta Kappa Award for original research at Hampden-Sydney&#8217;s 2013 Commencement\u00a0Ceremony.\u00a0 The award, in the form of a gold medallion and a $4,000.00 cash prize, is one of the most prestigious and lucrative awards given at college and university graduations across the country.\u00a0 Yonathan received the award for his Senior Honors Project in Biology entitled &#8220;An shRNA-mediate RNA Silencing Approach to Understand the Role of Melanoma-derived Factors in the Suppression of Dendritic Cell Maturation and Activation.&#8221;\u00a0 He conducted his project under the mentorship of Dr. Kristian M. Hargadon &#8217;01, Elliott Assistant Professor of Biology.\u00a0 Yonathan plans to pursue graduate education and will be applying to M.D.\/Ph.D. programs in the fall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_965\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/Ararso-Yonathan.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-965\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-965\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/Ararso-Yonathan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yonathan receiving the Jones Prize from Provost and Dean of the Faculty Dennis Stevens<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yonathan Ararso, a biology major in the class of 2013, was recently awarded the Samuel S. Jones Phi Beta Kappa Award for original research at Hampden-Sydney&#8217;s 2013 Commencement\u00a0Ceremony.\u00a0 The award, in the form of a gold medallion and a $4,000.00 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2013\/05\/20\/yonathan-ararso-13-receives-highest-research-honor-at-graduation\/\">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-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}