{"id":8774,"date":"2014-01-30T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/usc-dornsife-dean-receives-honorary-degree\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:16:24","slug":"usc-dornsife-dean-receives-honorary-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/usc-dornsife-dean-receives-honorary-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Dornsife Dean Receives Honorary Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n  \n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a 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wide-eyed 17-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Devoting much of his time to mathematics and physics classes as an undergraduate, he sometimes snuck out of a thermodynamics course to visit a linguistic philosophy class.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At Bristol, I was encouraged to be intellectually courageous, to seek out subjects that would be challenging to me,&rdquo; Kay recalled. &ldquo;Now as dean of USC Dornsife I strive to encourage our students to embrace this same entrepreneurial spirit.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of his undergraduate studies, Kay&rsquo;s Ph.D. adviser Trevor Griffiths convinced him to join a project striving to understand some fundamental aspects of photosynthesis. It was Griffiths&rsquo; excitement &mdash; the passion for his own research topic &mdash; that convinced Kay to remain at Bristol to earn his doctorate in biochemistry.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 29, Kay returned to his alma mater to receive a Doctor of Science <em>honoris causa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was an incredible privilege to return to the University of Bristol for my <em>third <\/em>graduation,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I was thrilled when I received the letter from the vice chancellor informing me that I had been chosen to receive an honorary degree.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kay, along with five other honorees including head of NASA and USC alumnus Charles Bolden, were recognized for their outstanding achievements and distinctions in their fields. During the ceremony, an oration was delivered in commendation of each recipient.<\/p>\n<p>Alistair Hetherington, Melville Wills Chair in Botany at Bristol, outlined how Kay seeks to understand the workings of the intricate intracellular machine, or clock, responsible for controlling circadian rhythms in plants, humans and microbes. Hetherington said Kay&rsquo;s discoveries concerning the molecular components of the intracellular clock and how they work together were &ldquo;truly groundbreaking.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hetherington noted Kay and his research team&rsquo;s investigation into the ties between circadian rhythms and the body&rsquo;s metabolism. This research helps to explain why night-shift workers, frequent travelers and others with disrupted circadian rhythms appear more prone to metabolic disorders. Kay&rsquo;s lab discovered a chemical that regulates the human biological clock that in turn could be used to develop completely new drugs to treat metabolic disorders like Type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Hetherington also highlighted Kay&rsquo;s election to the National Academy of Sciences as well as his more than 200 published papers. He was also named among <em>Science<\/em> magazine&rsquo;s &ldquo;Breakthroughs of the Year&rdquo; three times.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;His work is agenda setting and he is, without doubt, a titan or indeed <em>the<\/em> titan of his field,&rdquo; Hetherington said.<\/p>\n<p>Tracing Kay&rsquo;s professional path in education including the Scripps Research Institute, the University of California, San Diego, and now USC Dornsife, Hetherington also commended Kay for his passion for teaching.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Drawing these threads together,&rdquo; Hetherington said, &ldquo;in professor Steve Kay we have one of the most outstanding biological scientists of his generation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Bristol lauds one of its most distinguished graduates, USC Dornsife Dean Steve Kay, with an honorary degree of Doctor of 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