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How can environmental initiatives improve wellbeing for impoverished individuals in America with a focus on reducing environmental inequality
This environmental and well-being project will begin with the student investigating all aspects of climate change, environmental activism, phycology, and well-being topics that interest them. The mentor will use the first handful of sessions to guide the student's learning by leveraging readings, videos, discussions, and HW (no busy work!) assignments. The student will then create an online which touches on each of their most passionate topics.. The student will use readings and discussions with the mentor to grow their research notes, eventually completing a grand research paper ready for publication. It is also important the paper culminates in the student's summary of the best path forward for a more sustainable future by using environmental initiatives to enhance mental health. This project is extremely flexible and is easily altered for every student's wishes and level.
Dance, Creative Writing, Environmental Science, Business
Investigating Carbon Markets: Mechanisms, Economics, and Implementation Strategies for a Sustainable Future
This economics, policy, and sustainability-focused project will begin with the student investigating all aspects of climate change, global warming science, environmentalism, business, and economics that interest them. The mentor will use the first handful of sessions to guide the student's learning by leveraging readings, videos, discussions, and HW (no busy work!) assignments. The student will then create an online which touches on each of their most passionate topics--most likely including topics on current carbon market types with real-world examples. The student will use readings and discussions with the mentor to grow their research notes, eventually completing a grand research paper ready for publication. It is also important the paper culminates in the student's summary of the best path forward for a more sustainable future of carbon markets globally. This project is extremely flexible and is easily altered for every student's wishes and level.
Dance, Creative Writing, Environmental Science, Business
Why the Climate Change Fight needs Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization
Did you know that we can capture CO2 from the air and turn it back into fuel? This renewable energy and sustainability-focused project will begin with the student investigating all aspects of climate change, global warming science, environmentalism, carbon chemistry, and carbon capture-related topics that interest them. The mentor will use the first handful of sessions to guide the student's learning by leveraging readings, videos, discussions, and HW (no busy work!) assignments. For this more scientifically advanced topic, many university research articles will be read and discussed. The student will then create an online which touches on each of their most passionate topics. The student will use readings and discussions with the mentor to grow their research, eventually completing a grand research paper ready for publication. It is also important the paper culminates in the student's summary of the best path forward for a more sustainable future in this topic. Carbon capture technology has many pros and cons. The student will evaluate these in-depth. This project is extremely flexible and is easily altered for every student's wishes and level.
Dance, Creative Writing, Environmental Science, Business
How to Drive Sustainable Production and Consumption from a Niche Trend to a Mainstream Movement
This sustainability-focused project will begin with the student investigating all aspects of climate change, global warming science, environmentalism, supply chain, logistics, and business that interest them. The mentor will use the first handful of sessions to guide the student's learning by leveraging readings, videos, discussions, and HW (no busy work!) assignments. The student will then create an online which touches on each of their most passionate topics. The student will use readings and discussions with the mentor to grow their research, eventually completing a grand research paper ready for publication. It is also important the paper culminates in the student's summary of the best path forward for a more sustainable future in this topic. This project is extremely flexible and is easily altered for every student's wishes.
Dance, Creative Writing, Environmental Science, Business
Radioligands and their utility as diagnostic and therapeutic agents for cancers.
The physics and chemistry of radio nucleotides will be discussed. This discussion will lead to the appropriate application in imaging and cell killing as treatments for cancers. Examples of drugs utilizing radioligands will be discussed, their synthesis and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic properties will be expounded upon. The molecular effects of using radioligand will be discussed as well. Suggestions as to future developments and potential advancements will be proposed.
Cancer
Reforming the Department of Health and Human Serivices as Poeple First
At the NJ Department of Health and Human Services, I led a project to make the organization more people-focused. The way services were provided felt disconnected, making it hard for people to get the help they needed. To fix this, I worked with a team to research better ways to serve the community. We listened to doctors, nurses, and social workers to understand their challenges and came up with a plan to improve the system. We redesigned how services were offered, creating a new logo and centralizing everything into a one-stop system across 21 counties. This change helped over 2 million Latinx residents get the support they needed more easily. I love mentoring students who are interested in making a difference through projects like this and want to learn how to create real change in their communities.
Public Health
Latinx Identity: A Case Study of the formation of the Latinx Commuity at Yale
Memory updated Over the course of a year, I researched Latinx identity and group formation at Yale, diving deep into how Latinx students understand and shape their identities. I created a 50-page literature review, drawing from psychology, sociology, and anthropology to explore how Latinx individuals and groups form and navigate their identities in new environments. Through surveys and in-depth interviews, I examined how group dynamics and individual identities evolve, the challenges and opportunities in forming cohesive groups, and how this impacts political, social, and emotional support. The project also looked at how these dynamics influence broader funding and economic issues for the Latinx community across the U.S.
Public Health
Duke AI Health --A Road Map for Products
At Duke AI Health, I led a project that focused on using artificial intelligence to improve healthcare. I worked with a team to create new ideas for using AI to help doctors and hospitals provide better care. We researched how AI is being used in healthcare and identified ways to create new tools that could make a big impact. This experience showed me how AI can make healthcare smarter and more effective, and I enjoy mentoring students who are curious about AI, healthcare, and using technology to solve important problems.
Public Health
Eclipse Plugin development
Various new plug-ins have been created for Eclipse in order to promote individual as well as collaborative development efforts in industrial as well as academic setup. This project would require students to come-up with their own idea of a new Eclipse plug-in, its importance and then develop the same using Java programming language.
Computer Science
Using Graph Databases to model relationships- in field of your choice
Graph Databases comprise of nodes connected to each other using edges. They are useful in modeling relationships between various entities, like relationships between bugs vs, developers or developers vs artifacts or customer vs location-preferences or may be covid vs mental health problems. Hence, these relationships can be modeled for any domain. Students are encouraged to identity their area of interest, specific entities they are planning to model and the type of emergent relationships they are planning to study and analyze.
Computer Science