NHS Junior Earns Raines Fellowship

Allison Boyd, a junior in the School of Nursing & Health Studies, was recently awarded the Lisa Joy Raines Endowed Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

As a fellow, Boyd, who is a major within the Department of Human Science, will receive $5,000 to fund independent summer research.

Her project, she says, will look at genetic links among transmitted drug-resistant mutations in HIV-1. The focus will be on the Washington, D.C. area.

Currently, Boyd is part of research team at NHS that is studying antiretroviral drug resistance in HIV/AIDS.

Along with other undergraduates, she has worked closely with Michael Relf, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Nursing, and Charles Evans, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Human Science.

The Raines Fellowship, available to members of the Carroll Fellows Initiative, is named for Lisa Joy Raines, a 1982 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center who died on Sept. 11.