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Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

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• Served as Vice Chair for student-led group that provides wellbeing support to students at Rice University.
• Launched several projects, such as social media and improvements in wellbeing during Orientation Week, to make wellbeing accessible to all students at Rice University.
• Organized, communicated, and oversaw the projects that the subcommittees executed.

• Answered student questions during class.
• Hosted office hours outside of class to help students with assignments.
• Developed tools that simplified experiments and other essential parts of the lab.

• Hosted weekly discussion sessions with eight students to reinforce topics from class.
• Graded papers and assignments in a timely fashion.
• Facilitated learning through conversation amongst the students.

• Generate a humanized Drosophila fly expressing human Plectin to confirm functional conservation of Plectin/Shortstop.
• Determine whether decreasing Plectin levels in human neuronal cell cultures (SY5Y and ReN cells) changes neuronal morphology and phosphorylated Tau levels.

• Test patients with aphasia to understand how language acquisition is affected after strokes.
• Score patients on their performance for several different language tasks at weekly sessions.
• Collaborate with other members of the lab to assess the scores and share findings

• Help professors adjust to dual-delivery or fully online methods of instruction at university
• Problem solve technology issues during class time
• Communicate with professors and students about using various platforms including Canvas, Zoom, and Kaltura

• Raise awareness for events that are being hosted by Rice Neuroscience Society to increase participation within the community.
• Plan events for Brain Awareness Week while maintaining COVID-19 safe practices. Events include talking about mental health, stress, and neurosurgery.

• Edit applications for grants resulting in $5000 COVID Impact Support grant
• Help run a newly developed virtual program focusing on comprehension and expression development through reading and understanding various types of arts
• Communicate with aphasic patients and induce conversation to help normalize their lives post stroke/brain trauma

• Researched recovery of anions from natural waters using cation exchanged metal-zeolites.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: SA Wellbeing Committee, Rice Neuroscience Society, Rice Taiwanese Association

Education record

Activities and Societies: Chemathon, Tutoring, Light and Sound Booth, Backstage Manager