EXTRACURRICULAR EDUCATION

This intensive 4-credit college course gave me a strong foundation in study design and measures of association, bias, and confounding. I gained hands-on experience with R and RStudio to perform descriptive statistics, regression analyses, and data visualization, applied statistical reasoning to real-world public health questions, and drew conclusions from population-level data.

Throughout this 3-credit college level course, I developed a foundational understanding of the physiological and biological bases of psychological processes.

Click here to read my independent research paper authored for this course: How Sugar Affects the Brain and How Media Subconsciously Manipulates.

Introduction to Neuroscience
Summer 2023
Instructor Recommendation for Excellence

This immersive summer program at Columbia University examined brain evolution, development, and behavioral roles, focusing on brain systems, sensation, perception, and decision-making. I had the opportunity to analyze journal articles, discuss experiments, and propose original research ideas, while developing skills in critical thinking, experimental design, and scientific communication.

Through the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth’s On-Campus Programs, I had the opportunity to complete a Zoology Summer Program at Virginia State University and a Paleobiology Summer Program at Franklin and Marshall College.