{"id":93,"date":"2018-05-15T20:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/honors-and-awards\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:24:17","slug":"honors-and-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/honors-and-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors and Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2024<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alyssa has accepted a Vice Provost position at UT Southwestern!<\/li>\n<li>Katie defended her dissertation and completed her PhD!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2023<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alec Rodriguez was awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2023\/09\/22\/staff-excellence-recognized-at-2023-fall-staff-assembly\/\">Chancellor&#8217;s Research Award<\/a> at the Fall Staff Assembly!<\/li>\n<li>Alyssa was promoted to Senior Associate Dean for Faculty in the Basic Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Nathan Winn&#8217;s K01 was selected for funding!<\/li>\n<li>Heather started her new faculty position at the University of Houston in their Health and Human Performance Department. We are so proud!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matthew Cottam defended his dissertation &#8211; congratulations Dr. Cottam!<\/li>\n<li>Katie Volk&#8217;s individual F31 was funded!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2021<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are thrilled to have <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/jamie-garcia\/\">Jamie Garcia<\/a> join our lab! And she was also awarded a spot on the METP training grant!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/magdalene-ameka\/\">Maggie<\/a> was selected as a 2021 Intersections Science Fellows Symposium Associate-what an honor!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/nathan-winn\/\">Nathan <\/a>received the AHA Fellowship grant!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monica received a spot on the GI Training Grant!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/elysa-wolf\/\">Elysa<\/a> has received a spot on the Immunometablolism training grant!<\/li>\n<li>We are excited to welcome our new grad student, <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/elysa-wolf\/\">Elysa\u00a0<\/a>in our lab!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/nathan-winn\/\">Nathan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/katie-volk\/\">Katie&#8217;s<\/a> review was published in JCI Insight!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/matt-cottam\">Matt<\/a> was awarded an NIH F31 on the Weight Cycling project!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/486\/\">Heather<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/magdalene-ameka\/\">Maggie<\/a> both received AHA Fellowships!<\/li>\n<li>We are excited to have Monica, an Endocrinology Fellow as a part of our lab!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/magdalene-ameka\/\">Maggie<\/a> received a poster award at the 2019 Vanderbilt Diabetes Day!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/nathan-winn\/\">Nathan<\/a> was awarded an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multibriefs.com\/briefs\/tos\/TOS101619.php\">Early Career Research Grant<\/a> by The Obesity Society!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/matt-cottam\">Matt<\/a> received\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vumc.org\/2019\/08\/22\/graduate-students-deans-award\/\">Dean\u2019s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>We are excited to have <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/alec-rodriguez\/\">Alec<\/a> in our group as a new Research Assistant!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/kristin-peterson\">Kristin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/nathan-winn\/\">Nathan&#8217;s<\/a> paper on Impaired Insulin Signaling in C5 deficient models was published in AJP &#8211; Endocrinology and Metabolism.<\/li>\n<li>We are so excited to have two new graduate students, <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/katie-volk\/\">Katie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/julia-pinette\/\">Julia<\/a> in the lab!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/486\/\">Heather&#8217;s<\/a> review was published in <em>Current Obesity Reports<\/em>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/kristin-peterson\">Kristin<\/a> successfully defended her PhD and graduated &#8211; congratulations!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/merla-hubler-ms\/\">Merla<\/a>&#8216;s paper was selected for the AJP-Cell Physiology 2018 Paper of the Year award.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus-phd\/\">Reid<\/a>&#8216;s publication was featured in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vumc.org\/2018\/12\/13\/lean-obese-adipose-tissue\/\">VUMC reporter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2018<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our work was featured in the Vanderbilt Basically Speaking <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2018\/10\/04\/fat-tissues-iron-sink\/\">newsletter.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We were thrilled to have <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/nathan-winn\/\">Nathan<\/a> join our lab.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/magdalene-ameka\/\">Maggie<\/a>\u00a0was awarded the Advancing Science Award from the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCCHe).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/arion-kennedy-phd\/\">Arion&#8217;s<\/a> work on CD8+ T Cells in adipose tissue was highlighted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vumc.org\/2018\/09\/13\/research-reveals-link-between-immunity-diabetes\/\">Vanderbilt Reporter article<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus-phd\/\">Reid<\/a> was awarded a mini-sabbatical\u00a0grant by the\u00a0Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology &amp; Inflammation (VI4) to pursue cross-disciplinary training.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>We were extremely excited to have <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/486\/\">Heather<\/a> join our lab.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/merla-hubler-ms\/\">Merla<\/a> successfully defended her PhD! What a great presentation summarizing years worth of work on the role of iron-handling macrophages in adipose tissue.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/merla-hubler-ms\">Merla<\/a>\u00a0earned her\u00a0Certificate in College Teaching at\u00a0Vanderbilt Center for Teaching<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid&#8217;s<\/a> paper was accepted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.molmetab.com\/article\/S2212-8778(17)30898-0\/fulltext?rss=yes\">Molecular Metabolism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/alyssa-hasty-phd\">Alyssa<\/a> was honored as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2017\/12\/05\/celebration-honors-11-new-endowed-chair-holders\/\">Cornelius Vanderbilt endowed chair<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid<\/a> successfully defended his PhD and graduated.<\/li>\n<li>We were very excited to have <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/magdalene-ameka\">Maggie<\/a>\u00a0(postdoc) and <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/matt-cottam\">Matt<\/a> (PhD student)\u00a0join our lab.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid&#8217;s<\/a> abstract was selected for an oral presentation at the 2017 AAI\u00a0Immunology\u00a0meeting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/alyssa-hasty-phd\">Alyssa<\/a> was appointed as <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2017\/02\/02\/hasty-named-to-new-vusm-basic-sciences-role\/\">Associate Dean of Faculty Development<\/a>, Vanderbilt University Basic Sciences.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/merla-hubler-ms\">Merla<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid<\/a> were each awarded an\u00a0&#8220;Engineering Immunity and Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology&#8221; Travel Grant to attend the 2017 AAI Immunology\u00a0meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2016<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/alyssa-hasty-phd\">Alyssa<\/a> was a co-organizer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/faseb.org\/src\/micro\/Site\/Obesity.aspx\/home.aspx\">2016\u00a0Immunological Aspects of Obesity\u00a0FASEB\u00a0meeting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid<\/a> placed 2nd in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/2017-management-and-business-principles-scientists\">Management &amp; Business Principles for Scientists<\/a>\u2019 Project Competition.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/kristin-peterson\">Kristin<\/a> was awarded funding through the\u00a0Immunobiology of Blood &amp; Vascular Systems (HL069765)\u00a0NIH\u00a0Training Grant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid<\/a> placed 4th in the poster competition at the <a href=\"http:\/\/faseb.org\/src\/micro\/Site\/Obesity.aspx\/home.aspx\">2016\u00a0Immunological Aspects of Obesity\u00a0FASEB\u00a0meeting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2015<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/alyssa-hasty-phd\">Alyssa<\/a> was selected to\u00a0participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drexel.edu\/medicine\/Academics\/Womens-Health-and-Leadership\/ELAM\/\">ELAM<\/a>\u00a0academic medicine program for women. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2016\/06\/hasty-academic-medicine-program-women\/\">Read about it here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid&#8217;s<\/a> image was chosen as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jleukbio.org\/content\/current\">cover<\/a> for the Journal of Leukocyte Biology October issue\u00a0and the article was selected for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jleukbio.org\/content\/98\/4\/451.full\">editorial highlight<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid<\/a> was awarded an IES Travel Grant and a Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eosinophil-society.org\/symposia\/past-symposia\/2015-biennial-symposium\/\">2015 International Eosinophil Society Symposium<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/alyssa-hasty-phd\">Alyssa<\/a> was promoted to Full-Professor! We are SO proud of our boss!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/merla-hubler\">Merla<\/a> passed her Qualifying Exams and is now a PhD candidate in the MPB Graduate program!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/arion-kennedy-phd\">Arion<\/a>\u00a0won\u00a01st\u00a0place\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid<\/a>\u00a0won 3rd place\u00a0for their poster presentations at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.auburndiabetes.com\/researchday.html\">Boshell\u00a0Research Day<\/a> at Auburn University.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid<\/a> was awarded an American Heart Association\u00a0Predoctoral Fellowship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/kristin-peterson\">Kristin<\/a> received funding from the Pharmacological Sciences training grant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/merla-hubler\">Merla<\/a>&#8216;s NRSA application was funded on its first submission!<\/li>\n<li>We were thrilled to have <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/kristin-peterson\">Kristin <\/a>join our lab.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/alyssa-hasty-phd\">Alyssa<\/a> had her\u00a0VA Merit grant successfully funded.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/takuya-kikuchi\">Takuya<\/a>, a visiting student from Japan, joined our group.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/arion-kennedy-phd\">Arion <\/a>was awarded an K01 from NHLBI and promoted to Research Instructor &#8211; awesome job Arion!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/arion-kennedy-phd\">Arion<\/a> was selected the Daryl Granner Vanderbilt Diabetes Scholar! The\u00a0Reporter article can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2013\/12\/day-of-events-highlights-efforts-to-fight-diabetes\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/emily-anderson-baucum-phd\">Emily<\/a> successfully defended her dissertation &#8211; congratulations Emily!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/arion-kennedy-phd\">Arion<\/a> was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Merck.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid<\/a>\u00a0passed his Qualifying Exam with flying colors!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/andrea-hill\">Andrea<\/a> received\u00a0a perfect 10 on her NRSA &#8211; awesome job!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2012<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/andrea-hill\">Andrea<\/a> for passing her Candidacy Exam with flying colors!!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/emily-anderson-baucum-phd\">Emily<\/a> was awarded an American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship award.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/william-reid-bolus\">Reid<\/a> joined our lab and received funding from the METP\u00a0training grant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/corey-webb-ms\">Corey<\/a> successfully defended his thesis and now has his Master&#8217;s Degree.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/dario-gutierrez-phd\">Dario<\/a> successfully defended his dissertation and is now Dr. Gutierrez!\u00a0 Congratulations Dario &#8211; we&#8217;re so proud of you!!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/emily-anderson-baucum-phd\">Emily<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/arion-kennedy-phd\">Arion<\/a>\u00a0each won\u00a01st\u00a0place for their poster presentations at Boshell Research Day at Auburn University (March 1st).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2011<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/emily-anderson-baucum-phd\">Emily<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/arion-kennedy-phd\">Arion<\/a> each won 2nd place for their poster presentations at the Southeast Lipid Research Conference &#8211; congratulations!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/dario-gutierrez-phd\">Dario&#8217;s<\/a> paper was accepted to\u00a0Diabetes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/jeb-orr-phd\">Jeb<\/a>\u00a0was awarded a postdoctoral NRSA.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/andrea-hill\">Andrea<\/a> won first place for her poster presentation at Boshel Diabetes Research Day!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/hasty-lab\/person\/arion-kennedy-phd\">Arion<\/a> was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Diabetes Association.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2010<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emily passed her Qualifying Exam &#8211; congratulations Emily!<\/li>\n<li>Dario&#8217;s abstract was accepted for an oral presentation at the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Mike was awarded an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship!<\/li>\n<li>Corey was accepted to complete a summer intership at the NIH.<\/li>\n<li>Alyssa was featured in the American Diabetes Assocation\u00a0Forefront\u00a0magazine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2009<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bonnie Surmi graduated!\u00a0 Congratulations Dr. Surmi.<\/li>\n<li>Dario was selected as a Travel Award recipient for a Keystone conference.<\/li>\n<li>Bonnie Surmi won the 2009 Vanderbilt Diabetes Scholar Award in the graduate student category!\u00a0\u00a0www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/diabetes\/drtc\/ScholarsAwards2009.php\u00a0\u00a0www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/reporter\/index.html<\/li>\n<li>Arion and Corey were accepted to attend the Metabolic Syndrome Course at Vanderbilt this summer.<\/li>\n<li>Mike&#8217;s abstract was chosen for an oral presentation at the Obesity Society meeting this fall.<\/li>\n<li>Dario passed his Qualifying exam!<\/li>\n<li>Mike Puglisi won the Postdoc Oral Presentation at the MPB retreat.<\/li>\n<li>Bonnie Surmi won the Graduate Student Poster Presentation at the MPB retreat.<\/li>\n<li>Arion Kennedy was selected for a postdoc position on the METP grant.<\/li>\n<li>Emily was selected for a graduate student position on the Cellular, Biochemical, and Molecular Sciences (CBMS) Training Program.<\/li>\n<li>Corey Webb was accepted into the Master&#8217;s of Laboratory Science Program!<\/li>\n<li>Alyssa was promoted to Associate Professor!<\/li>\n<li>Bonnie Surmi&#8217;s abstract was selected for an oral presentation at the ATVB conference in DC, and she received a travel award from the graduate school to attend the meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Mike Puglisi received a third place award for his poster presentation at the Boshell Diabetes Research Day at Auburn University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2008<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saraswathi Viswanathan was awarded an American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant.\u00a0 Congratulations Saras!!<\/li>\n<li>The Hasty Laboratory was selected by a donor to the American Diabetes Association to be\u00a0the recipient of their generous gift.<\/li>\n<li>Alyssa was selected\u00a0to be highlighted as the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training\u00a0Center Featured Investigator for\u00a0November 2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/diabetes\/drtc\/<\/li>\n<li>Marnie Gruen, Dario Gutierrez, and Alyssa Hasty submitted an abstract to the Obesity Society meeting that was selected to be presented in their Plenary Oral Abstract Presentation session (only 7 of 1000 submitted abstracts were chosen for this honor).<\/li>\n<li>Alyssa Hasty was selected to receive a travel award for the\u00a0NIH\u00a0Workshop on the Establishment, Maintenance, and Turnover of Fat Depots.<\/li>\n<li>Dario was selected for a graduate student position on the Molecular Endocrinology Training Program (METP) grant.<\/li>\n<li>MIke was selected for a postdoctoral position on the METP grant.<\/li>\n<li>Kimberly Coenen was chosen as only graduate student to receive the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center Scholar Award.<\/li>\n<li>Bonnie Surmi was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association<\/li>\n<li>Kimberly Coenen successfully defended her dissertation on February 8th, and has gone on to begin her post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Mac Buchowski.<\/li>\n<li>www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/diabetes\/drtc\/drtc_news2008.php<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2007<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kimberly Coenen was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association.<\/li>\n<li>Alyssa Hasty was awarded a Career Development Award from the American Diabetes Association.<\/li>\n<li>Alli Antar successfully defended her dissertation in April and is now doing well in her post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Larry Chan at Baylor.<\/li>\n<li>Marnie Gruen successfully defended her Master\u2019s thesis.<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Plummer successfully defended her Master\u2019s thesis.<\/li>\n<li>Alyssa Hasty was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Vanderbilt Digestive Diseases Research Center.<\/li>\n<li>Dario Gutierrez was awarded a Director\u2019s Award Scholarship to the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at Vanderbilt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2006<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alyssa Hasty was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Vanderbilt Digestive Diseases Research Center.<\/li>\n<li>Robin Atkinson was accepted into medical school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 Alyssa has accepted a Vice Provost position at UT Southwestern! Katie defended her dissertation and completed her PhD! 2023 Alec Rodriguez was awarded a Chancellor&#8217;s Research Award at the Fall Staff Assembly! Alyssa was promoted to Senior Associate Dean for Faculty in the Basic Sciences Dr. Nathan Winn&#8217;s K01 was selected for funding! 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