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AUSTIN NGUYEN |
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Student studying Biology and International Studies/Public Health with experience in the non-profit sector and medical research. Seeks to find a satisfying intersection that weaves interests in social advocacy/entrepreneurship and health initiatives. Focus on educational access, socioeconomic inequality, health disparities, scientific research, and public health. Interested in international NGOs, public health issues, non-profit work, and poverty alleviation.
Interns assist the College Relations team in supporting the colleges who partner with QuestBridge to offer educational opportunities to low-income students.
Duties include:
- Assisting in developing materials and coordinating logistics for admissions representatives attending the College Admissions Conferences
- Collecting and analyzing enrollment results of College Match finalists
- Analyzing trends in admissions decisions of partner colleges to better understand applicant profiles that interest our partners
- Updating partner college sections of the QuestBridge website to reflect changes in college requirements and policies
- Collaborating in the development of methods and procedures to strengthen enrollment outcomes for partner colleges
In the Raymond Lab, I assisted a PhD student researching the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) to further understand motor learning and memory consolidation. I shadowed basic laboratory techniques (immunohistochemistry, PCR, tissue cross sectioning) and learned the fundamentals of Neurolucida, an advanced scientific software for brain mapping, neuron reconstruction, anatomical mapping, and morphometry.
Signing students in to the lab to access language learning resources provided by Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Assisting pupils on in-class assignments, grading homework assignments and quizzes to determine level advancement, organizing stock supplies, and working with higher-level, advanced math students on quadratics, calculus, etc.
Aachen
Update on spontaneous, last minute summer fellowship applications: It worked.
Summer research in Aachen, Germany from May to June and a diaspora study of refugee immigrant communities in Berlin, Paris, and Prague from July to August!
Could not be happier to be at Williams.
Since leaving arid Nevada for wet western Massachusetts, I sometimes catch myself missing the rare intersection between the two: desert rain.
mmqd:
Grammy- Purity Ring (Soulja Boy Cover)
PURITY RING COVERED SOULJA BOY AND IT SOUNDS FUCKING GREAT.
I just really like this.
The poems on Old Street are set in capital white letters on a brushed black background, in a sort of mangled Futura; it’s a type treatment that should send his words running and screaming through the streets but somehow does not. Instead, the words lean calmly against the wall and arouse a kind of subtle and unnoticed reflection. People pass by on their way to or from here or there. They do double-takes and slow down. Intrigue wraps their faces. They stop, read, think, and eventually move on, carrying something with them that maybe wasn’t there before. Something that came free, silent and unexpected, set in capital white letters on a brushed black background.
Oooooooh…”
“What? Sounds like you’re reading some hot gossip…”
“No, I’m looking up the protein content of cottage cheese.
(via overheardatwilliams)
OH MY GOD, HOW DID I GET ON THIS BLOG.