Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award
for Exemplary Contributions to Schooling.
Regina Stevens-Truss, Kalamazoo School’s Dorothy H. Heyl Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the recipient of the 2023 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Award for Exemplary Contributions to Schooling.
The ASBMB is an expert group of science, one of many largest of its form on this planet. The award, instituted in 2005, credit a person who encourages an efficient educating and studying of biochemistry and molecular biology whereas demonstrating a dedication to pedagogical engagement and educating innovation. As one in every of 14 professionals from all over the world being honored by the ASBMB, Stevens-Truss will give a presentation about her educating and studying trajectory on the society’s 2023 annual assembly, Uncover BMB, in March in Seattle.
“Being chosen for this honor surfaces all of my humble bones,” Stevens-Truss mentioned. “By no means in my wildest desires did I foresee being nominated and even much less being chosen for this award. My imposter syndrome persona is in full bloom proper now, and I can hear the entire voices that inform me recurrently ‘settle for a praise, Regina.’ This award means the world to me, I’m honored and humbled, and might’t imagine the record of pioneers that my identify might be listed with.”
Stevens-Truss served on the Minority Affairs Committee (MAC), now referred to as the Maximizing Entry Committee, in addition to on the Schooling and Skilled Growth (EPD) Committee of the ASBMB, the place she was a part of the steering committee that created the concept-driven educating methods that laid the inspiration for the group’s certification examination. She additionally was the principal investigator in 2012 of a Nationwide Science Basis grant that supported a STEM Ok-12 outreach initiative by the society referred to as Fingers-on Outreach to Promote Engagement in Science (HOPES – see pages 37-38 at this hyperlink).
Since becoming a member of the school at Ok in January 2000, Stevens-Truss has been educating Chemical Reactivity, Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and An infection: World Well being and Social Justice. Present analysis in her lab focuses on testing a wide range of compounds (peptides and small molecules) for antimicrobial exercise. She can also be the School’s director of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence grant, which was awarded to Ok’s science division in 2018. In 2016, she obtained Ok’s highest educating honor, the Florence J. Lucasse Lectureship for Excellence in Educating.
Stevens-Truss earned a bachelor’s diploma from Rutgers College and a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the College of Toledo. She held two fellowships on the College of Michigan between 1993 and 1999, one in every of which was a lectureship in medicinal chemistry.
“I joined the college at Ok in a division with the BEST group of educators and college students that I might have requested for,” she mentioned. “From day one, my chemistry and biochemistry division colleagues have supported each hair-brained thought I’ve give you. They make me assume laborious about educating by all the time preserving our college students front-and-center in our conversations on this matter. My college students have pushed me to be higher, to care extra, to information them via their journey of studying and development. And, with out all of those of us, this award wouldn’t have occurred. This award is not only for me, however for all who’ve been in my life within the final 20-plus years. You realize who you might be!”
