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Congratulations to Dr. Bowleg and Myla Lyons who spoke at the Dr. John Lamont Peterson Annual Research Symposium for the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) Program.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Bowleg and her 1st-year student Myla Lyons who spoke at the Dr. John Lamont Peterson Annual Research Symposium for the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) Program at the University of Michigan .

Dr. Bowleg's talk was titled "Want to Be A Future HIV Prevention and Treatment Researcher? You're Going to Need to Critical (and Intersectional). She interviewed Myla about her experience as a first year doctoral student with critical theoretical perspectives and nontraditional research methods (e.g., qualitative).

At the end of the presentation, Dr. Gary Harper (the SOAR joint-PI and Myla's mentor when she was at SOAR) surprised them with beautiful glass prism plaques.