Jackie Pelham ’16, ’22 was a Postdoctoral Research associate. A longtime member of the Hurley lab, she transferred to RPI as a junior from Hudson Valley Community College, where she was awarded for academic excellence in Biology and Chemistry. While there, she also received the Who's Who Among College and University students award for academic performance as well as leadership. During her undergraduate studies at RPI she received the Founders Award for Excellence. In addition, she was selected to participate in a summer undergraduate research fellowship supported by the Marsh, Prince and Wait endowments at RPI to continue her investigations into the intrinsically disordered protein FREQUENCY. Her research in the Hurley Lab focuses on the contributions of protein disorder to the circadian core clock proteins in multiple model organisms. As a graduate student she was awarded the Perkins Prize for her research in Neurospora crassa by the Genetics Society of America. She spends her spare time with her Great Dane Goose and family.