{"id":3024,"date":"2016-10-03T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=3024"},"modified":"2016-10-03T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:22:02","slug":"goldwater-scholarship-winner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/along-the-walk\/goldwater-scholarship-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldwater Scholarship Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/files\/2016\/10\/Goldwater.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3053\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/files\/2016\/10\/Goldwater.jpg\" alt=\"Goldwater\" width=\"247\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>With competition from the top colleges in the nation, the Barry Goldwater Scholarship is among the most prestigious awards for students who wish to pursue research in scientific fields. Adding her name to the list of winners is Kathryn Powers \u201917.<\/p>\n<p>Powers, a biology and biochemistry double major from Arnold, Maryland, works with Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Biology\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1000597\">Daniel Blackburn<\/a>\u00a0on biology research that she began through the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/Academics\/SpecialPrograms\/gateway\/ISP\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Interdisciplinary Science Program<\/a>. Her application essay for the scholarship highlighted the research she has conducted using scanning electron microscopy to study developmental anatomy of reptiles.<\/p>\n<p>Powers has worked in Blackburn\u2019s lab as a collaborative researcher for three years. He said that Powers is a mature and highly skilled researcher who has demonstrated the ability to carry out a challenging project from start to finish. \u201cKat quickly gained great skill in using highly sophisticated lab instrumentation, notably the Zeiss electron microscope that we acquired under a National Science Foundation grant,\u201d Blackburn said. \u201cThrough her use of this instrumentation, she has made a significant set of discoveries that are certainly worthy of publication in the literature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the scholarship, Blackburn said that Powers has made contributions that, with further research and investigation, could be groundbreaking in providing a basis for more discovery by Trinity students and researchers at other colleges. \u201cKat\u2019s scientific observations have the potential to refute common assumptions in the embryological literature about developmental mechanisms and their evolution,\u201d Blackburn said.<\/p>\n<p>Powers presented work this past summer at the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology in Washington, D.C. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. after graduating from Trinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With competition from the top colleges in the nation, the Barry Goldwater Scholarship is among the most prestigious awards for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1466,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3024\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}