American Airlines stranded me in the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport overnight and I just made it to the conference in time for the 2nd half of the poster session. I presented wearing the same clothes I'd been wearing for two days and that I'd "slept" in after feeling like a pigeon at the airport. They know people are going to have to try to sleep there--why do they put those armrests to make it impossible. We won't poop on the floor. Anyway, it was an awesome conference, and I got a lot of good business done.

HBERGer Harold Acosta, Julia Sponholtz, Kira Yancey, Taylor Puckett, and Jennifer Fourroux rocked some URSCA presentations this past weekend and looked good doing it!

At the HBA annual meeting in Austin, TX on April 11-12, PhD student Mandy Guitar (HBA Student Officer) will be hosting a workshop for students around establishing an online presence. Dr. Lynn will be presenting a poster on data collected in 2017 in American Samoa as part of the Inking of Immunity study called "Tatau and the hygiene hypothesis: Retesting the inoculation effect of tattooing in American Samoa" with co-authors M Howells, D Herdrich, J Ioane, D Hudson, ST Wilson Fitiao. Details are at www.humbio.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018-HBA-Program_.pdf.

At the AAPA annual meeting Dr. Lynn is co-author with Michaela Howells on a talk called "Zika Virus and maternal stigmatization: Supporting maternal and child health through religious engagement in American Samoa" and will be giving a talk with Dr. Howells co-authoring called "​Fight the bite: Zika Virus, personal responsibility, maternal stigmatization, and disabled children in American Samoa."

Congrats to Julia Sponholtz, Taylor Puckett, Jennifer Fourroux, and Kira Yancey on successful presentations at the 2018 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference (UCRA).