{"id":762,"date":"2019-02-26T18:14:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/?p=762"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:14:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:14:40","slug":"the-murray-inspiration-award-kiana-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/2019\/02\/26\/the-murray-inspiration-award-kiana-gunn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murray Inspiration Award &#8211; Kiana Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;justified&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><em>I get to work with some of the most amazing students.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, the University of Richmond held its first annual <a href=\"https:\/\/news.richmond.edu\/releases\/article\/-\/16072\/university-of-richmond-holds-inaugural-black-excellence-gala.html\">Black Excellence Gala<\/a>. From the pictures I&#8217;ve seen, and the reports from those who attended, it was a wonderful night of celebration. 50 years ago, the first black students lived on our campus. I think many people would say that the campus has changed significantly since then. I&#8217;m sure others, myself included, would say that we still have a way to go, but we are working to be inclusive and to help all students (and other campus members) be successful during their time here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kiana Gunn<\/em> joined my lab after her first year. She has worked on a number of projects and has never hesitated to try a different technique or experiment. She kept our cancer cells going for numerous semesters and she has become a competent synthetic chemist. Her encouragement of everyone around her, her positive attitude, and her curious mind makes her such a valuable member of our lab.<\/p>\n<p>I was not surprised to hear that she won the Murray Inspiration Award presented at the Gala last weekend. This award is given to a member of the community who serves as a glaring beam of inspiration to others and constant source of light. It is like they designed this award for Kiana. I wouldn&#8217;t be able to describe her in a better way. Congratulations, Kiana! For all the successes you have had at University of Richmond. Thank you for being apart of my lab and for being a constant source of light to so many!<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> I get to work with some of the most amazing students.\u00a0 This past weekend, the University of Richmond held its first annual Black Excellence Gala. From the pictures I&#8217;ve seen, and the reports from those who attended, it was a wonderful night of celebration. 50 years ago, the first black students lived on our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[795,35898],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/pollocklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}