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About Me
Check the checkbox to read more about me. When I was a child, my parents moved me to different school districts so that I could get a better education all while living in a basement. When I became older, I learned about how my grandmother was deported to a gulag prison camp because her father was a teacher. My childhood and grandmother's story has taught me the importance of education, so I strive to respect what my parents had to sacrifice and what my grandmother had lost. I also strive to make sure others don't have to go through the same or worse conditions me and my family had to go through. I do this by serving my community in the healthcare and science fields. I'll be the youngest presenter at the American Chemical Society (the largest science society in the world) National Meeting in Boston, youngest recipient of a travel grant from the organization's Green Chemistry Institute, an environmentalist, Flint water crisis and women in STEM activist, an author, and I have collaborated with scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Latest Projects
● Synthesis of "three-legged" tri-dentate podand ligands incorporating long-chain aliphatic moieties, for water remediators, and for isolating metal ions in non-aqueous solution
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The poster below showcases our findings.
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Our research showed that if our ligand could pull metal ions into a nonpolar solution called monoglyme, it should be able to pull metal ions out of aqueous solution.
I received the 2017 American Chemical Society Ciba Travel Grant in Green Chemistry as the first high schooler recipient. This grant covers the costs for me to attend the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Also, my abstract was accepted into the Sci-Mix and Division of Environmental Chemistry poster sessions. The Sci-Mix poster session consists of abstracts selected by division program chairs and represents the most exceptional abstracts submitted to participating divisions.
Our research will be published in Green Chemistry Education: Recent Developments.
Additional information: My group and I also presented at the ACS Central Regional Conference in Dearborn, Michigan as the only high school group. Click here to view our abstract from the conference.
The poster below showcases our findings.
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My team and I collaborated with others in the scientific community, specifically those in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and our predecessors in the research program. I also collaborated with my colleagues to present our findings to our families and scientists in the scientific community. Our data will exist in perpetuity in the BRAIN Initiative, a global initiative to understand the brain and how it functions.
We conducted our research at Coastal Marine Biolabs through the NeuroLab Program and we were supervised by Ralph Imondi, Ph.D. and Linda Santschi Ph.D. I received a full-tuition scholarship to attend the program, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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I helped conduct this immunology-focused research in Shunbin Xu’s, M.D., Ph.D. laboratory at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. I emailed several hundred professors about research positions that interested me. I didn’t receive many responses, but I eventually chose Dr. Xu’s laboratory. because of my interest in bacterial keratitis.
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*The ACS National Meeting in Boston is starting soon. Make sure to add my presentation ENVR 754 to your schedule.
*Conducted extensive neuroscience research through the NeuroLab Program at Coastal Marine Biolabs.
*Received recognition from the Engineering Society of Detroit and at the Metro Detroit Youth Day.
*Conducted extensive neuroscience research through the NeuroLab Program at Coastal Marine Biolabs.
*Received recognition from the Engineering Society of Detroit and at the Metro Detroit Youth Day.
