I'll send a little more detail later as we get detail. But Rob was in contact with many people today about the IGERT Fellowship. They all were very willing to work with him and get things in order so it's worth everyone's time to take the Fellowship. Rob just officially accepted the Fellowship and is excited about it. What the scholarship means for us is a hefty raise, along with the prestige of the award, as well as hopefully opening more doors for Rob in his career in the future. Rob will still be able to do the Procter and Gamble rotation this summer that he's so excited about. And it looks like we'll be able to work out Dr. R (his mentor) paying for family insurance (the one major expense this scholarship would increase for us). They're also willing to decrease the amount of classes Rob will have to take and they said they'd be willing to let him take them slowly, like one at a time, so he won't miss a lot of time in the lab. So all's looking pretty good.
Other than that, Rob's knee is doing okay. He's still feeling crappy and he's not able to do much at all, but he's feeling better. Not much to say on it. I took a picture of it for you all to see. We just took off all the dressings today. The leg is pretty swollen, but there's not much discoloration yet. I'm sure that will come.
Tamra
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