JILA Fellows Thomas Perkins and Graeme Smith win the 2021 Outstanding Postdoc Mentor Award

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JILA Fellow Thomas Perkins has been awarded the 2021 Oustanding Postdoc Mentor Award. This award recognizes mentors who have gone above and beyond to support their postdocs. Perkins was nominated by postdoc David Jacobson, who praised Perkins' effort to help Jacobsonapply and receive the prestigiousNIH K99 “Pathway to Independence” Award.
JILA Fellow Graeme Smith also won the 2021 Outstanding Postdoc Mentor Award, being nominated byCU Boulder postdoc Vikesh Siddhu and former CU Boulder postdoc, Felix Leditzky.Leditzky said Smith “played an integral part in guiding me through the process and helping me achieve this career goal. I aim to pay forward the trust and support that I received from him.”