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Avinash Malaviya, a winner of the True Bruin Distinguished Senior Award, is working to combine his two loves: music and neuroscience. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)

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Six-year-old Avinash Malaviya’s piano teacher taught him to play by ear. Malaviya, now a fourth-year ethnomusicology and neuroscience student, recalls walking into his first lesson, his nervousness stifling his normally energetic personality.

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IN THE NEWS:

True Bruin senior scholar weaves love for music with passion for medicine

By Kristina Iliopoulos

Feb. 12, 2016 1:30 a.m.