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Fairfax, Virginia

• Spearheaded tutoring sessions to help students struggling with academic writing and research analysis• Guided students in their academic writing by communicating in email-style format, as well as in-person• Increased the Living Learning Community English program to include other communities, besides engineering, through on-campus presentations, and lectures• Acted as a student resource and mentor for undergraduate students

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

• Title of Project: The Role of Digitized Herbaria in Pharmacognosy and Medicine• Performed research, through literature reviews, into Pharmacognosy and Ethnobotany to increase knowledge and ability to provide valuable contributions.• Reviewed and analyzed plant data from Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)• Complied a comprehensive list of medical uses for different medical plants to be used in future research• Utilized Tableau to create graphs and location maps for data

Charlottesville, Virginia

• Title of Project: Optimizing Norborne Functionalized Hyaluronic Acid Electrospinning • Organized and carried out an experiment for different combinations of materials and solvents that would yield the best results from the electrospinning process. The results would be used in future research. • Cultivated skills in electrospinning, biomaterial, cell culture and microscopy • Presented research at the Leadership Alliance National Symposium