Graduate student Jacob Steenwyk receives prestigious 2022 Harold M. Weintraub Award
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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He is the second Vanderbilt 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’s Robert W. Day Campus.
“It is a huge honor to have won the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award,” Steenwyk said. “Professor 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.”