The Student Success Coaching Program is an academic support service provided to all actively enrolled undergraduates and is uniquely designed to help students build the needed foundation for a successful semester and academic year.Through collaborative 1:1 sessions, students learn to develop learning strategies, establish healthy study habits, cultivate self-advocacy, build a campus support system, and so much more. It is important to note that success coaching is not academic advising, personal counseling, or one-on-one tutoring for a particular course.The Student Success Program embraces a holistic support model and empowers students to: - Objectively assess barriers to academic success- Establish attainable educational goals- Develop and maintain positive daily routines- Improve time management and organizational skills- Enhance self-esteem and self-advocacy skills- Develop personal study schedules- Become active learners and class participants- Take effective lecture notes- Prepare for exams, quizzes, and presentations- Balance academic and social demands- Establish rapport with professors and key campus partners- Utilize and build campus support systemsStudent Success Coaches are GW graduate students that are trained to use interactive and intentional methods to empower and motivate students to set and work towards attainable goals, access campus resources, effectively manage schedules, utilize appropriate study strategies, and better acclimate to the campus environment.Student Success Coaches play an integral role in equipping students with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to successfully navigate their undergraduate experience.

Collaborating with Doctors and PhD students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Primary research focus is on 3D and 4D bioprinting and nano-technologies to aid tissue and organ regeneration. Use of bioprinting and nanomaterials to fabricate vascularized cardiac tissue for heart regeneration and neuro-guidance conduits.As an emerging tissue manufacturing technique, 3D bioprinting offers great precision and control of the internal architecture and outer shape of a scaffold, allowing for close recapitulation of complicated structures found in biological tissue. In addition, 4D bioprinting is a highly innovative additive manufacturing process to fabricate pre-designed, self-assembly structures with the ability to transform from one state to another directly off the bioprinter. Since natural tissue is mainly nanometer in dimension and various cells directly interact with nanostructured extra-cellular matrices, the biomimetic features and excellent physiochemical properties of nanomaterials play a key role in guiding various tissue repair and regeneration. Our lab has designed a series of innovative biologically inspired nanomaterials including nanotubes, nanofibers, nanospheres and nanoparticles which can mimic the natural nanostructured and hierarchical tissue extra-cellular matrix to provide a biomimetic environment for cell growth and tissue regeneration.As promising progenitor cells for tissue regeneration, stem cells can self renew and differentiate into multiple cell types and tissues in human body. One of the main challenges in current stem cell research is how to selectively differentiate and effectively deliver stem cells into favorable cell types at injury sites in order to regenerate desirable tissue. We are interested in controlling stem cell differentiation and developing engineered stem cell based scaffolds for tissue regeneration. Various nano to micro-structured scaffolds are fabricated in the lab for controlling stem cell differentiation.

A research group at The George Washington University focusing on nanophotonics and microfluidics. Some of our projects include a lab-on-a-chip devices, a wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) ring, wearables, sensors, and machine learning. We are actively working on a few different projects at this time in collaboration with multiple groups.Current Project: GWU, in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Vision Care (JJVC), has developed a microfluidic (lab-on-a-chip) system and method to evaluate the interaction between contact lens and tear, which can enable the reproduction and quantification of tear deposits on small contact lens samples. The microfluidic device can be made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), polystyrene, acrylic, cyclic olefin copolymer (COC), glass etc. by injection molding, replication molding, hot embossing, milling or lithography.

- Uncover the origins and drivers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria; develop probiotic therapies to block their spread- Promote evidence-based policy and practice in human medicine and agriculture- Identify targets for new diagnostics to guide antibiotic prescription, improve patient care and decrease costs- Quantify the drug-resistant human infections arising from antibiotic overuse in food animals- Engage consumers and policymakers using new and traditional media

Cardiovascular Lab researcher - current research focuses on potential hormonal effects of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone on human hearts. Worked with mice/rats to collect electrocardiogram data that was analyzed using MATLAB, cardiac optical mapping, intracardiac electrograms, activation mapping, cardiac telemetry data collection

Research Assistant in the development of 3D-printed hearts and valves using a patient's own cells/tissues. Heart disease causes one in four deaths in the United States alone. Such techniques can be used increase the rate of successful heart transplantations and forge a new way to counteract the shortage of heart donors for transplants.