Students can articulate and demonstrate competency in understanding the basic function of neuronal signaling and attain field/discipline specific knowledge.
CBSC-257: Sleep & Circadian Rhythm
I took this class during 2021 Winter Term. The final project of this class was to propose a policy change regarding sleep health. I wrote a proposal on the student athlete sleep and practice schedule, intended for Athletic Directors and coaches on college campuses. I believe that this work exempplifies “SStudents can articulate and demonstrate competency in understanding the basic function of neuronal signaling and attain field/discipline specific knowledge.” I have given many presentations throughout my academic career but it was rare for me to give a proposal through writing form. By the same token, it was interesting having to explain terms and methods to showcase my field/discipline specific knowledge. From creating this project, I learned how to effectively communication with lay people about field/discipline specific knowledge.
CBSC-298A: Learning & Memory
I took this class during 2021 Fall Term. The Learning & Memory class attempted various new learning & teaching methods. For example, during the latter half of the course, students were the ones teaching their classmates. I believe this class exemplify the “Students can articulate and demonstrate competency in understanding the basic function of neuronal signaling and attain field/discipline specific knowledge,” because the class structure involves educating not only myself but my classmates. I was involved in designing and researching appropriate part of the presentations. By creating these presentation, I learned how to maximize classmates’ best potential; for example, this class had CBSC, Neuroscience and Pre-Med aspects to it. I was able to help students struggling with neuroscience background.
Students will engage in scientific data analysis and interpretation.
BIOL-185: DATA SCIENCE:EXPLORE BIG DATA
I took this class during 2020 Fall Term. The semester long project involved making a GitHub and working on both UI, UX and a ShinyApp using big data. Our group looked into data regarding sleep health. The ShinyApp was presented in front of the class. I believe this project exemplifies “Student will engage in scientific data analysis and interpretation,” as I looked into big data regarding automobile accident regarding sleep and made a website from it. I’ve worked with two classmates, in which they focused on each cities sleep health risk level and railroad dispatcher sleep health data. I chose this project becasue this course introduced me into heavy data cleaning and tidying and that is the fundamentals of how to analyze and interpret scientific data.
DS-395A: How A Vaccine Is Born
I took this class duirng 2022 Winter Term. The Project 2 of this course allowed students to analyze data on almost any topic having to do with Covid-19, vaccines, or vaccine hesitancy. The project will be presented in front of the class. I decided to analyze death and vaccine hesistancy using CDC data. I believe that this assignment exemplifies “Students will engage in scientific data analysis and interpretation.” This project did not involve any collaboration. I chose this item because I believed that using R language to analyze data is the prime example of my engagement in scientific data analysis and interpretation.
Students will collaboratively engage in the scientific process by conducting ethical research with faculty and peers.
CBSC-250: Statistics & Research Design
I took this class during 2020 Winter Term. After learning about statistics and research design, a pair of students brainstormed and conducted a research. My partner and I researched on the impact of personal memory on creativity. The paper was not shared with anyone other than Dr. Dan Johnson. I believe that this project exemplifies “Students will collaboratively engage in the scientific process by conducting ethical research with faculty and peers,” becasue my partner and I collaboratively engaged in ethically researching the impact of personal memory on creativity. My partner and I evenly split up all processes such as writing the paper, conducting the study, etc. I chose this project becasue I believed that it showecased my baseline research ability prior to taking numerous neuroscience courses.
CBSC-354: Advanced Methods Attention
I took this class during 2021 Fall Term. After taking a seminar class the previous year, students were conducting an experiment regarding attention. While the experiment phase were collaborative, the paper writing was done seperately. I have set up the e-prime and my partner was responsible for recruiting and conducting the experiment. The final paper was not shared with anyone other than Dr. Wythe Whiting. I believe that this course exemplifies “Students will collaboratively engage in the scientific process by conducting ethical research with faculty and peers,” as a pair of students must collaboratively set up the experiment and conduct the research ethically throughout the whole semester. As aforementioned, the paper portion did not involve and collaborative work. I chose this project because I believe that it highlighted my ability to engage in scientific process by conducting ethical research with peers during my senior year.
Students will identify relevant primary research and critically evaluate it.
BIOL-275-01: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
I took this class during 2021 Fall Term. The student-led article discussion paper assignment encourages students to review primary article that is related to nutrition and neuroscience and present the findings to the class. My partner and I reviewed a study on gut-brain axis and sugar preference. I believe that this assignment exemplifies “Students will identify relevant primary research and critically evaluate it,” as each team are assigned a primary research journal article and not only evaluate it but also present them to the class. Here, I was responsible for explaining introduction, assumptions of the study and results of the study. From working on this assignment, I was able to get a better understanding of gut-brain axis which laid some foundations for Nutritional Neuroscience class but also taught me how to evaluate primary research articles.
CBSC-298A: Nutritional Neuroscience
I have been taking this class during 2022 Winter Term. The Nutritional Neuroscience Review Paper project reviews of primary research journal articles. I wrote about the nutritional aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease. I believe that this work exemplifies “Students will identify relevant primary research and critically evaluate it,” becasue through this assignment, I not only read but also evaluated primary research articles. This item was not a collaborative work. I chose this item because previous classes focused on conducting and writing my own research, but this class offered an unique learning experience of writing a review article based on currently availabe primary sources.
Students will effectively communicate scientific information (orally, visually and in writing).
NEUR-121 Intro to Neuroscience Workshop
I took this class during 2020 Winter Term. The workshop portion of Intro to Neuroscience was heavily focused on presentation, in which my partners and I had to give several presentation. I believe this class exemplify the “Students will effectively communicate scientific information (orally, visually and in writing),” because the focus of this class highlights presentation which involves all three aspects of communication. I was heavily involved with designing and research aspects of it. I chose these items because I believe that these showcase a baseline level of communication I had in the early phases.
CBSC-254: Attention
I took this class during 2021 Winter Term. During this term, I not only learned about attention but also I conducted a study and had to give a presentation about it. My partner and I conducted an experiment on people attention and emotion recognition and presented the result in front of the class. I believe that this exemplify the “Students will effectively communicate scientific information (orally, visually and in writing).” My partner and I worked equally on setting up e-prime, getting participants, conducting the study and working on the presentation. I chose this work because I learned how to communication my study rather than summarize someone else’s works.