Rujvi Kamat, a San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology student working at the HNRP, was just awarded a Tinker Research Travel Grant from the UCSD Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies.  The award will provide funding for a 3-week visit to Hospital de Clinicas- Universidade Federal do Parana in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, where the HNRP has an on-going project (Ron Ellis, PI) examining the NP consequences of HIV infection.

Alex Liu, an undergraduate at San Diego State University who is completing an internship at the HNRP under the SDSU Career Opportunities in Research (COR) program, received the Dean's Award from the SDSU College of Sciences at SDSU's 4th Annual Student Research Symposium. The award is given to the top two oral presentations in each College, regardless of undergraduate or graduate status.  Alex's presentation was "Neuropsychological Functioning Predicts Occupational Attainment in an Indian Cohort," with data provided from the NeuroAIDS in India (T. Marcotte, PI) project.  Alex has been invited to compete in the California State University-Wide Student Research Competition, to take place in Fresno in May.