World AIDS Day on campus

Dr. Manu O. Platt presents on AIDS Research in Recognition of World AIDS Day
Make sure to mark your calendars for Tuesday, December 1st at 11:10am! In recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1st, Dr. Manu O. Platt, Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department, will be talking about the research he has been conducting in relation to AIDS. Dr. Platt has traveled internationally during the course of his research and attended the International AIDS Society / NIH Conference in South Africa this past summer. His presentation on December 1st will be in conjunction with the display of six panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt that day. He will be speaking in the Piedmont Room in the Student Center for approximately forty-five minutes.

Also in recognition of World AIDS Day, on December 1st six panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a huge quilt commemorating the lives of over 40,000 people who lost their lives to AIDS, will be displayed on campus. Three of the panelswill be displayed in the CRC all day and another three of the panels will be on display in the Student Center from 10am - 2pm. More information about the AIDS Memorial Quilt can be found at www.aidsquilt.org/.