oversee full-length articles pitches and editing, coordinate with art, layout, business, outreach branches to ensure coherent theme per issue

pitched, assigned, and edited article topics by coordinating with twelve writers and arts editors per issue, redirected YSM articles in new, narrative-styles to incorporate socioeconomic/cultural context of science

interviewed and reported on research breakthroughs from Yale PET Center, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Department of Computer Science

in collaboration with Dr. Erica Spatz and Dr. Oyere Onuma at the Yale School of Medicine to develop a personalized app for cardiovascular disease prevention, incorporating biological, social and contextual data to target socioeconomic disparities in hypertension diagnoses

• performed intracardiac perfusion and fixation for mice, Vibratome sectioning, and antibody experiments to locate 5-HT receptor subtypes in the Cg1/M2 region• visualized changes in dendritic architecture in Cg1/M2 following psilocybin administration

- gained valuable shadowing and surgical exposure to live spine surgeries, cerebrovascular webinars, case studies, and sessions in neuroanatomy and medical entrepreneurship. - become a BRAINterns campus ambassador to extend the program's undergraduate reach, reaching 1293 followers on Instagram, and a 20k following on the BRAINterns Facebook page

hosted productive conversations in 'tearoom' sessions about the political role of Asian-Americans on Yale’s campus and beyond, discussing and circulating petitions/fundraisers regarding COVID-related sinophobia, AAPI hate crimes, and BIPOC solidarity

- investigating the interactions between single nucleotide polymorphisms, expression quantitative trait loci, and microRNA variants associated with tumorigenesis - currently compiling a comprehensive genomic dataset of oncogenes implicated by Bert Vogelstein through data-mining

- surveyed over 5000 EPIC charts, toxicology reports, and prescriptions to uncover new relationships between social determinants and opioid use disorder in New Haven residents

- led a team of revisions editors to review weekly submissions to the magazine- organized monthly poetry readings, writing workshops and school-wide slam poetry sessions- worked directly with HCHS administration and Ka-blam! printing to print and distribute over 250 copies to students and alumni yearly

- expanded the club to 30 members, targeting underclassmen through social media marketing - coordinated suturing, fiberglass casting, and case study workshops to offer easily accessible pre-med opportunities to first-generation students- organized a school-wide viewing of a live neurosurgery with Liberty Science Center

- one of 50 fellows selected from 550+ applicants after a personal nomination from Hunter College High School- implicated a specific neural pathway between the dorsolateral striatum and basolateral amygdala in OCD pathology- modified optogenetic stimulation experimental approaches to develop a non-invasive treatment to suppress compulsive symptoms in murine models

- designed microfluidic chips to model live environments- studied prevention of biofouling by observing migration of endothelial cells on SLIPS-coated channels- gained proficiency in Arduino coding and 3-D computer design software including SolidWorks and ImageJ