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.
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.”