•Provide student-run organizations insight into various campus resources and protocols, ranging from budgeting and funding requests to recruitment and leadership development•Organized a committee to review new groups in order to determine what work needed to be done, if any, for the university to grant these groups full recognition

•Spent the summer primarily producing and testing custom microfluidic devices using PDMS and silicon wafersultimately used to seed glioblastomas and noncancerous brain cells•Helped write protocols for making PDMS wafers to the lab’s preferences, enabling future research interns to quicklyand independently perform the work•Conducted research during the year that varied flow rates within microdevices to see if creating physiological pressuregradients within the chips could predictably affect growth of HUVECs (Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells)

•Advise a group of fifteen first year students on a wide variety of topics ranging from academic success to interpersonal relationships as a means of insuring a successful college transition•Meet one-on-one with each first-year frequently student throughout the year, ensuring that they feel comfortable reaching out should they be unhappy

•Extracted digitized ossicles (skeletal elements) of ophiuroids (brittle stars) from micro-CT scans of fossils•Prepped the extracted scans for articulation via Autodesk Maya by segmenting and delineating ossicle from soft tissue•Assisted in conducting breakdown of ophiuroids using acid and algae as a means of preparing samples for micro-CT scans

•Designed and carried out daily (Monday-Friday) curriculum for a group of 7 and 8-year-old boys from low income neighborhoods in order to promote summer study habits, continued reading in particular•Organized and led trips for the afternoon such as guided tours of the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University to expose the young boys to higher education•Led conflict resolution discussions as to establish healthy behaviors when facing disagreements

•Determined relevant evidence from text messages, emails, and other forms of communication before organizing and cataloging it for presentation in court •Reviewed prenuptial agreements to assess the validity of certain premarital arrangements during divorce proceedings•Attended meetings between clients, opponents, and respective representation in order to guide the search for corroborative or contradictory evidence