Gabriel Nitro Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

United States

• Authored hundreds of multiple choice questions, drafting both incorrect and correct responses to target common misconceptions, provided explanations for incorrect and correct options to guide students in the right.
• Reviewed hundreds of multiple choice questions for a myriad of chemistry projects.
• Organized curriculum based on the difficulty or "level" of a given question, integrated learning objectives into questions, ensured cohesion with the language of a given text, and rated the class of questions (e.g..
• Collaborated with tens of hundreds of authors to ensure the timely completion of a unified product.
• Contributed to multiple chemistry projects, such as the Interactive General Chemistry 2.0 Learning Curve, the General Chemistry Readiness Learning Curve, and the Guinn Project for General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Drafted engaging session plans, worksheets, Powerpoints, and interactive activities to promote an active learning environment for student athletes to become self-sufficient learners.
• Participated in cohort meetings to facilitate earnest connections amongst colleagues and to learn nuanced teaching styles based on subject.
• Engaged in quarterly trainings to enrich a perspective on learning, facilitating, and accommodating to a diverse set of learners.
• Modified engagement based on feedback with student athletes, professors, teaching assistants (TAs), and supervisors.
• Organized timesheets to guarantee an accurate and an efficient documentation of hours as a worker under the University of California.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Attended weekly meetings to modify strategies and instruction based on course syllabi, student concerns, teaching assistant (TA) feedback, and professor feedback to improve the state of facilitating for all chemistry.
• Drafted interactive and engaging worksheets (short answer and multiple choice) for students tailored to the course syllabi, sample textbook problems, and applications in biological, chemical, environmental, industrial.
• Facilitated two hour sessions per week on improving the conceptual and mathematical understanding of students in general chemistry contexts.
• Promoted a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and active learning environment for all students through sound pedagogical techniques.
• Communicated with students through resolving misconceptions, questions, and challenging concepts through an interactive, online platform known as Chemistry Community.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Promoted an interactive and equitable learning environment within General Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, AP Chemistry, and AP Environmental Science classrooms for high school students.
• Researched innovative methodologies for chemistry education in terms of teaching practices, laboratory practices, and classroom organization within the Journal of Chemical Education.
• Apprenticed under a veteran high school teacher to learn the complexities of classroom management.
• Collaborated with a colleague to draft an original, chemistry lesson plan in accordance to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
• Applied the 5E Instructional Model to facilitate a rich and investigative approach to learning chemistry though creating claims, collecting evidence, and justifying an answer through particle-level reasoning.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Attended weekly meetings to discuss psychoneuroimmunology, recruitment, and research methodologies.
• Printed mailouts, stickers, recall labels, and fliers to increase the sample size of eligible participants at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI).
• Organized prospective participants through filling surveys, notating chronic conditions, and listing medication for diseases (e.g. antihypertensives, antidepressants, cholesterol regulation).
• Recruited eligible participants through calling phone numbers in the United States Census collected from Genesys and those provided by patients at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center.
• Prepared patients in a clinical setting to have a fMRI, complete psychological assessments, participate in reward tasks, and create images for data collection.
• Alleviated the anxiety of older adults aged 60-80 years old who participated through in-person visits.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Analyzed observational video data to characterize neoliberal strategies employed by parents.
• Guided research colleagues through compiling interdisciplinary research articles to read.
• Organized data transcripts to standardize methods and operationalize preferred neoliberal tactics.
• Provided nuanced perspectives on neoliberalism through the lens of educational psychology.
• Researched journal articles, academic theses, and paradigms to define the neoliberal self.
• Synthesized transcript segments to isolate instances of parent-child emotional work in family life from the Center of the Everyday Lives of Families (CELF).

United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Instilled sentiments of curiosity in each undergraduate student to further their exploration of science.
• Enticed collaboration amongst peers, while fostering an equitable and inclusive learning environment.
• Revitalized the importance of confidence in asking and answering questions to develop insights.
• Provided innumerous clarifications to content through platforms, such as Campuswire and Zoom.
• Encouraged the implementation of constructive study habits and indicated the plasticity of learning.
• Collaborated with content developers and created original, additional practice worksheets for undergraduate students in LS7A: Cell and Molecular Biology.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Constructed original and interactive lesson plans to foster a complex understanding of biology.
• Fostered curiosity, imagination, questions, and deepened a complex understanding beyond the scope of the course.
• Facilitated immersive laboratory collaboration as high school students handled specimens, such as fetal pigs.
• Devised appropriate learning strategies for connecting prior knowledge to real-life models/scenarios to promote engagement for high school students.
• Graded handouts, worksheets, and weekly exams while collecting student data for quarter projects.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Education

M.A. in Education

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biochemistry, Departmental Highest Honors

B.S. in Biochemistry Minor in Science Education

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Interact Club, Math Club, Medical Academy, Orchestra, Link Crew, National Honor Society, Spanish Honor.