*The award lecture and its accompanying slides are also available to watch here: https://youtu.be/XmjU5aXYtjU.
The Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award honors an outstanding scientist who has shown a sustained commitment to breaking down local and/or systemic barriers against scientists and students from historically marginalized or excluded groups. Shana Stoddard is an associate professor of chemistry, the founding director for the STEM Cohort Mentoring Program, and in 2021 was the inaugural director for student mentoring at Rhodes College. Stoddard’s lab, which hosts about 10 undergraduates each year, does protein structure modeling and analysis, structural biology and drug design. Learn more: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/081623/asbmb-names-2024-award-winners.