{"id":572,"date":"2015-10-10T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/?page_id=572"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:09:15","slug":"impacting-lives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/impacting-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Impacting Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Info Text &#8211; Right Hand Column Placeholder<br \/>Refresh After Saving to Remove<\/h2>\n  <h3><strong>Impacting Lives<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/rasr-lab\/impacting-lives\/\">Impacting Lives<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/rasr-lab\/our-group\/alumni\/\">Alumni<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RenASRobinson1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-height=\"600\">Tweets by RenASRobinson1<\/a><\/p>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/05\/IMG-6548-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        Visiting undergraduate Alysha Johnson presents poster at REU session.\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/05\/IMG_0332-scaled.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        Black Girls Becoming Summer Institute 2023\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/05\/IMG_0353-scaled.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        Black Girls Becoming Summer Institute 2023\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/05\/Min-Ji-Choi-scaled.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        Min Ji Choi presents &#8220;Optimization of Automated Protein Depletion for Plasma Proteomics&#8221; at US HUPO 2022.\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/05\/K.-Patterson-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        Dr. Khiry Patterson awarded 2nd place at the 3rd Annual Vanderbilt Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Research Day for poster.\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/05\/US-HUPO-2022.png\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        RASR Lab Team Members Attend the 2022 US Human Proteome Organization event in Charleston, South Carolina.\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/05\/Alzheimers-101-Flyer-13-250x250-1.png\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer&#8217;s Center. https:\/\/www.vumc.org\/vmac\/home\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/05\/N.-Oliver-AVBGS-Oct.-2021-250x250-1.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        Nekesa Oliver Celebrates Student Success at Ida B. Wells Elementary School\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/05\/20220609_094351.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n            <figcaption>\n        Black Girls Becoming Summer Institute 2022\n      <\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n        <p>Our work in the laboratory is extremely important, however the work that we do outside of the laboratory is just as important.<\/p>\n <!-- rich-text -->\n        <h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobcche.org\/\">NOBCChE<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The mission of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobcche.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nobcche.org<\/a>) is to build an eminent cadre of people of color in science and technology. 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