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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.

Please join us in congratulating some of our faculty Drs. Poppen and Moore and Applied Social Student Mary, who received awards yesterday at the Faculty Honors Ceremony!

Mary Jobe, WID Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award

Paul Poppen, Gold Anniversary (50 years)

Philip Moore, Silver Anniversary (25 years)

Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Mbaba on the successful defense of her dissertation, titled: The Stereotypical Yogi(ni): Exploring the Effects of Prototype Similarity and Racial Centrality on Black Adult Women’s Willingness to Practice Yoga.

A hearty thank you to the following faculty members for their valuable guidance and insight throughout the dissertation process:

Dr. Michelle Stock (committee member)

Dr. Ellen Yeung (committee member)

Dr. Sharon Lambert (examiner)

Dr. Jameta N. Barlow (examiner)

And a very special thank you to Dr. Paul Poppen for chairing the defense.

Congratulations Mary 🥳🥳🥳🥳