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• Work with other servers and kitchen staffs to serve food to customers.

• Work with facilitators and group leaders to encourage Japanese high school students to gain confidence, practice English, explore their identities, and become independent thinkers and role models. • Work in groups with Japanese high school students to discuss important topics such as positive thinking, overcoming obstacles, gender equality, career goals, sustainable development, university education, poverty, food loss, presentation and communication skills, and personal strength and identity. • Guide Japanese high school students with individual and group presentations, projects, and skits. • Attend all girl high schools to encourage students to express their individualism, speak their minds, and build integrity and resilience.• Facilitate and participate in group and team bonding activities.

• Work and collaborate with principal investigator, graduate students, and undergraduate students regarding engineering protein domains for misfolded protein recognition.• Work on an individual project to identify which HSP40 proteins, a cochaperone family of heat shock proteins that are expressed by cells under stressful conditions, do not inhibit Polyglutamine protein aggregation to identify misfolded interactors with HSP40 proteins. • Complete a 4 units research course, Chem 199: Senior Research.

• Participate in quarterly engagement hours with professors from multiples areas of studies including Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Biology. • Complete various honors required professional development courses such as Ethnic Studies, HNPG 150 and HNPG 151 in preparation for the capstone project. • Complete a two-year capstone project entitled Misfolded Interactors of HSP40 Family on DNAJB8 and the misfolded interactors of HSP40 cochaperone family.13th Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity Symposium (May 2019) Poster Presentation • Tran, M., Mei, L., Genereux, J. (2019, May 15). Misfolded Interactors of HSP40 Family.• An annual conference hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Education at UC Riverside to allow undergraduate students to present their research and creative works.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings with first and second-year students to assist students with challenging courses.• Mentor students regarding personal and academic problems.• Connect students with academic, leadership, clinical, and research opportunities.

• Tutor UC Riverside undergraduate student with Biochemistry in regard to homework and test preparations.

• Work with professors, attend lectures, make worksheets, and hold classroom supplemental instruction sessions to help students with challenging courses.• Go over practice tests with students before midterms and final exams and answer students’ questions.

• Assist teacher assistant in leading classroom discussions with incoming first-year students regarding strategies to be successful in college such as time and financial management, physical and mental health, etc.• Grade students’ responses to assignments.

• Attend leadership lecture series including lectures on medical topics, workshops, and group discussions.• Present at St. John’s Episcopal Church regarding mental health and stress management to the San Bernardino community. • Assist in analyzing the pre and post survey responses collected from the St. John’s Episcopal Church members regarding stress management. • Present the results at UCR Palm Desert Center during future physician leader reception as one of the three teams representing Riverside/San Bernardino site.