Grandparents and the Queen

Grandparents and the Queen
Late grandpa Raghavan and grandma Pushpa got invited to.meet the queen on her yacht. then also got a card from her 35 years later.




This time last year

 Attending at Cal football game at Memorial Stadium. 

Have to get around to attending games at new school. Still adjusting and figuring my way around.  Takes time, Autism and transitions are the not the best of bedfellows. 



This time last year

 At the RadMad Disability Lab at UC Berkeley



Environment and Autism


Participated in an NIEHS session today which looks at  role of environment in autism. Interesting discussion.

Number 13

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2022/09/12/2023usnewsbestcolleges/ 

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges

Vanderbilt is ranked 13th among national universities on U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Colleges list. The university—moving up one spot from last year to its best-ever overall U.S. News ranking—also was recognized as a best value and as a stellar learning community.

They Can and They Will

 

On my facebook feed


Well said Paul - "... have a child or young adult with autism -ANYTHING is possible! Don’t let any teacher , family member “ friend” or anyone say your child can “ never” do x y or z . They can , and they will."

How Two Mischievous Deer and a Fawn took over a backyard!

(a humorous skit on the backyard deer seen in from my Nashville home)

How Two Mischievous Deer and a Fawn took over a backyard!

One sunny afternoon, two majestic deer with large antlers, Antler McDeerface and Staggy McStagface, stepped out of the woods to grub on some clover grass in somebody's backyard. 

Simple Beginnings

Got my own personalized Labcoat at the Simple Beginnings Ceremony today for incoming PhD students.

The term Simple Beginnings is taken from the end of Darwin's epic work as he has had such an impact on scientific thinking in the last 150 years.

This labcoat is so beyond cool. A labcoat for me symbolizes access to mainstream education.

Grad school is intense which super exciting and metaphorical fingers crossed I can succeed and get to do meaningful, ethical and impactful research (metaphorical as fingers crossed is not an easy motor-planning movement for me)

Image 1: Program head Dr Bruce Carter at podium announcing each student and their research interests. Kate Stuart, (Director of strategic affairs and events with Biomedical Research Education and Training) putting on my personalized lab coat. putting on my personalized lab coat. Audience and other students lined up in foreground.

Image 2/3. Sitting in audience before/after I got lab coat. Close up.of labcoat with my name embroidered. Other side of coat says Vanderbilt school.of medicine.










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