"Here is a picture from the Lujan Zoo, which I went to yesterday. It was about an hour and half outside of Buenos Aires, and pretty unique because we were allowed to touch and play with the animals, writes Mikhal Gold '07. "Next week I have midterm exams at the University, and then I have about two months left here in Buenos Aires. As of right now I have spoken with the University of Arizona School of Medicine and I plan to defer my admission into the medical school for one year, during which I will continue to travel and spend some time living and working in Israel, hopefully for Magen David Adom (the Israeli Red Cross) which I have always wanted to do. Meanwhile I am really enjoying living and studying in Buenos Aires. I feel like my Spanish is improving immensely." Mikhal worked in Dr. Emmanuel Akporiaye's lab, Microbiology & Immunology. E-mail: gold1@email.arizona.edu

"Things are going very well at UCSF, I was just awarded a full-year of funding from HHMI to work on a really cool project concerning mechanisms and triggers of autoimmunity," reports David Caretto '04. "I'm slowly learning that I am really a physician-scientist at heart and have to thank UBRP for getting me started! I am going to apply to an internal medicine residency with my eye on fellowships in translational rheumatology and academic medicine in general. As always, please use me as a resource for any students that you think I could help!" As a UBRPer, David worked with Dr. Judith Ulreich, Surgery/Transplantation. E-mail: david.caretto@ucsf.edu

Zeb Hogan '94, UBRPer with Dr. William Matter, Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences was featured in an article in the June 22 issue of the Science. The article discusses Zeb's work with colleagues on six continents to document the world's largest freshwater fishes, many of which are vulnerable to extinction. The work is part of a three-year National Geographic "Megafishes Project." For more, go to "The Last of the Leviathans," in Science 316: 1684-1688. E-mail: zebhogan@hotmail.com