Peggy Cotter Travel Award

The KY-TN ASM Branch is allowed to nominate three members (early career) for the national ASM Peggy Cotter Travel Award. 

Please apply in January. 

For current national selection criteria see : Peggy Cotter Travel Award | ASM.org

The branch may have additional criteria. 

Currently we ask all winners to present (and promote) the award at a KY/TN Branch Meeting. 

Past Winners

2026

Janiece Glover, Medical and Public Health Laboratory Microbiology Fellow, Vanderbilt Medical Laboratories

Mostafa Rahnama, Asst Prof Biology, Tennessee Technological University

Alaa H. Sewid, Postdoc, University of Tennessee – Knoxville

2025

 Walter N. Harrington, Postdoc, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital