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Relevant Coursework
High School:
AP Biology   AP Chemistry   AP Physics 1   AP Statistics   AP English Language and Composition  AP English Literature and Composition  Fundamentals of Human Anatomy  AP Psychology  Principles of Biomedical Science  Certified Nursing Assistant Course  AP World History  AP US History  AP European History
Past Work
Analyzing the lifestyle's of today's Muslim-Americans
I interviewed two Muslim-Americans who differed over a wide range of factors. The point of the interview was to analyze how things like gender, social background, and environment came to play a role in religion. Click the button below to find out more!
Colonization: A Justification for Being Selfish and Greedy
Trying to better myself as both a reader and writer, I found great interest in analyzing writer techniques. Venturing through Deborah Miranda's novel, Bad Indians, I analyzed her methods and style of writing. Click the button to read my analyzation!
Diving into Remixes
There has been a long debate regarding the validity and legality of remixes. Some say that this is stealing, while others say this invokes creativity and freedom of expression. My piece dives into my very own remix and how its attributes like many deliver a new concept. Click the button to view it!
College:
Biological Chemistry: 99 - Student Research Program -- Immunostaining, Cryostaining, Pipetting
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Biological Chemistry 199 - Student Research Program -- Independent research related to thalmocortical interactions and neocortical development through an organoid system
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Psychiatry 176 - Brain and Behavioral Health: Adulthood and Aging -- Integration of problem-based learning approach to teach foundational information about application of brain and behavioral science to understanding and promotion of mental health during adulthood and aging. Exploration of integration of developmental psychopathology, applied treatment research, and public policy to identify and dismantle barriers to problems. Focus on set of key topics (e.g., depression, dementia, post-traumatic stress disorder) during adulthood and aging. Research of mental health and public policy literature. Guest facilitators with expertise complement study of emerging treatment advances, applications, and barriers.
Mollecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology 50 - Stem Cell Biology, Politics, and Ethics: Teasing Apart Issues -- Developmental biology of various types of human stem cells. Important functional differences between embryonic, hematopoietic, and adult stem cells, as well as differences in their biomedical potentials. Discussion of history of debate surrounding embryos, as well as various social, ethical, political, and economic aspects of stem cell research
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Honors Collegium: 50 - Creating Your Roadmap -- Introduction to selected signature approaches to learning (interdisciplinary, experiential, integrative, illustrative), ways of being (inclusivity, self-awareness, curiosity, independence, resilience, generosity, distinctiveness), and habits of doing (collaboration, creativity, innovation). Incorporation of empirical research and writing from different academic disciplines to help students understand rationales behind those approaches and associated applications for undergraduate learning
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Chemistry and Biochemistry: 14A - General Chemistry for Life Scientists I --
Introduction to physical and general chemistry principles; atomic structure based on quantum mechanics; atomic properties; trends in periodic table; chemical bonding (Lewis structures, VSEPR theory, hybridization, and molecular orbital theory); gaseous and aqueous equilibria; properties of inorganic and organic acids, bases, buffers; titrations
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Chemistry and Biochemistry: 14B - General Chemistry for Life Scientists II
hase changes; thermochemistry; first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics; free energy changes; electrochemistry and its role as energy source; chemical kinetics, including catalysis, reaction mechanisms, and enzymes; coordination compounds; general classes and naming of organic molecules; structure, conformations, and relative energies of organic molecules; application of thermodynamics and kinetics to organic and biochemical reactions; use of molecular modeling software to illustrate molecular structures and their relative energies
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Chemistry and Biochemistry: 14BL - General and Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
Introduction to volumetric, spectrophotometric, and potentiometric analysis. Use and preparation of buffers and pH meters. Synthesis and kinetics techniques using compounds of interest to students in life sciences
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Chemistry and Biochemistry: 14C - Structure of Organic Molecules
Continuing studies in structure of organic molecules, with emphasis on biological applications. Resonance, stereochemistry, conjugation, and aromaticity; spectroscopy (NMR, IR, and mass spectrometry); introduction to effects of structure on physical and chemical properties; survey of biomolecular structure
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Chemistry 14CL - General and Organic Chemistry Laboratory II -- Synthesis and analysis of compounds; purification by extraction, chromatography, recrystallization, and sublimation; characterization by mass spectroscopy, UV, NMR, and IR spectroscopy, optical activity, electrochemistry, pH titration.
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Chemistry and Biochemistry: 14D --Organic reactions, nucleophilic and electrophilic substitutions and additions; electrophilic aromatic substitutions, carbonyl reactions, catalysis, molecular basis of drug action, and organic chemistry of pharmaceuticals.
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Life Sciences: 7A - Cell and Molecular Biology
Introduction to basic principles of cell structure and cell biology, basic principles of biochemistry and molecular biology
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Life Sciences: 7B - Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology
Principles of Mendelian inheritance and population genetics; Introduction to principles and mechanisms of evolution by natural selection; population, behavioral, and community ecology; and biodiversity, including major taxa and their evolutionary, ecological and physiological relationships
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Life Sciences: 7C - Physiology and Human Biology -- Organization of cells into tissues and organs and principles of physiology of organ systems. Introduction to human genetics and genomics.
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Physics 5A
Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy -- Statics and dynamics of forces, motion, energy, including thermal energy, with applications to biological and biochemical systems.
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Physics 5B -
PHYSICS 5B
Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics -- Thermal properties of matter, free energy, fluids, ideal gas, diffusion, oscillations, waves, sounds, light, and optics, with applications to biological and biochemical systems.
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Life Sciences: 30A - Mathematics for Life Scientists
Mathematical modeling as tool for understanding dynamics of biological systems. Fundamental concepts of single-variable calculus and development of single- and multi-variable differential equation models of dynamical processes in ecology, physiology, and other subjects in which quantities change with time. Use of free computer program Sage for problem solving, plotting, and dynamical simulation in laboratory
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Life Sciences: 30B - Mathematics for Life Scientists
Introduction to concept of matrices and linear transformations to equip students with some basic tools to understand dynamics of multivariable nonlinear systems. Examples from ecological, physiological, chemical, and other systems
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Global Health 100 - Global Health and Development -- Interdisciplinary examination of key issues in area of global health, with focus on developing world. Provides basis for understanding current debates that frame global health problems and actions in and across nations with strikingly different political-economic contexts. Discussion of how local and international communities attempt to address challenges of global health problems and how interventions play out through range of policy and programmatic approaches.
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Disability Studies 195CE - Community and Corporate Internships in Disability Studies -- Internship in corporate, governmental, or nonprofit setting coordinated through Center for Community Learning. Students complete weekly written assignments, attend biweekly meetings with graduate student coordinator, and write final research paper. Faculty sponsor and graduate student coordinator construct series of reading assignments that examine issues related to internship site. May be repeated for credit with consent of Center for Community Learning
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Clusters: 20A/B - Interracial Dynamics in American Culture and Society
Examination of nature and meaning of race in American society through study of history, literature, and law. Consideration, among other topics, of construction of race as social and cultural category among two or more groups and exploration of ways in which race has shaped understanding of American citizenship
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Clusters: 20CW - Interracial Dynamics in American Culture and Society: Special Topics: Unveiling Muslim Americans: Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Gender
Study of how Muslims have been racialized in U.S. over time. Examination of connection between Islamophobia and racialization; and role of U.S. government and media in this process, particularly, in post-9/11 context. Exploration of how intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, visual dimensions such as hijab--along with impact of events connected to Muslim world--shape process of Muslim racialization and status
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