{"id":10214,"date":"2016-10-03T23:52:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2016-10-03T23:52:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T23:52:01","slug":"victoria-orphan-receives-macarthur-fellowship-gus-ramirez-to-uri-steve-finkel-wins-training-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/announcement\/victoria-orphan-receives-macarthur-fellowship-gus-ramirez-to-uri-steve-finkel-wins-training-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Orphan Receives MacArthur Fellowship, Gus Ramirez to URI, Steve Finkel Wins Training Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have many things to celebrate!\u00a0First, congratulations to USC graduate student Gus Ramirez for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis; he now embarks on a C-DEBI Postdoctoral Fellowship with Steve D\u2019Hondt at URI.\u00a0Congratulations also to C-DEBI Senior Scientist Steve Finkel, who will receive the American Society for Microbiology\u2019s 2017 William A. Hinton Research Training Award<\/a> for outstanding contributions toward fostering the research training of underrepresented minorities in microbiology.\u00a0Steve\u2019s GGURE undergraduate research internship program<\/a> is one of C-DEBI\u2019s flagship STEM-retention programs.<\/p>\n

We are also extraordinarily proud of C-DEBI Senior Scientist Victoria Orphan, recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship<\/a>*.\u00a0The 5-year \u201cgenius grant\u201d is meant to encourage creative scientists, artists and other thinkers who are pushing the boundaries of their fields.\u00a0Victoria is certainly doing that for C-DEBI.\u00a0A true Californian, she spent her childhood in San Diego, received undergraduate and graduate degrees from UC Santa Barbara, did a stint at NASA Ames in Mountain View, and since 2004 has been on the faculty at Caltech\u2014\u201cVictoria, do you realize there are 49 other states and, according to the United Nations, 192 other countries?\u201d\u00a0She is a role model for all of us who do interdisciplinary science; she brilliantly combines field- and lab-based research with method development and state-of-the-art analytical approaches, inspiring junior scientists and the \u2018more experienced\u2019 among us along the way.<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

Jan Amend
\nC-DEBI Director<\/p>\n

*Press:\u00a0MacArthur Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0LA Times<\/a>,\u00a0New York Times<\/a>, and\u00a0Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have many things to celebrate!\u00a0First, congratulations to USC graduate student Gus Ramirez for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis; he now embarks on a C-DEBI Postdoctoral Fellowship with Steve D\u2019Hondt at URI.\u00a0Congratulations also to C-DEBI Senior Scientist Steve Finkel, who will receive the American Society for Microbiology\u2019s 2017 William A. Hinton Research Training Award for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"organization":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10214"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=10214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}