Academic Experience
Kinesiology Ambassador
I am a current Kinesiology Ambassador as of fall of 2023. As a Kinesiology Ambassador, we dedicate at least 10-20hrs each semester. I am actively engaging/participating in events and recruitment. The events I have participated in our discovery days and KIN Day, where we give new incoming freshmen and or potential students a tour of our labs and classes and tell them all about what Kinesiology is, the different majors, and what they attribute to, what it is like majoring in Kinesiology.
Research
At UAH, we are required to take a two-semester research course. In this course, we perform our own research study in a group. I am currently a co-researcher in my group, where we are investigating the impact of the menstrual cycle phases on body composition in active females. I actively participated in the IRB proposal, recruitment survey, and the process of determining what type of volunteers we are looking for and how we will collect and analyze data.
Hands-on lab work
During my studies at UAH, many of my classes consisted of hands-on work in our human performance and exercise physiology labs, where we learned how to use a BOD POD, Parvo Metabolic System, skinfold Analysis Equipment and anthropometric tools, heart rate and blood pressure measurements, Monark Cycle Ergometers, Isokinetic Dynamometer, Electromyography, electrogoniometers, Resistance Training Equipment, JustJump Mat and Vertec Trainer, etc.
Hands-on Medical Experience
For my 2024 summer internship at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, I worked as an occupational therapy intern for the Huntsville Pediatric Therapy and Audiology. During my internship, I completed 200 hours of learning different forms of therapy and interventions for treating patients. Supervised by the occupational therapy staff, I observed multiple occupational therapists to learn what they incur on a daily basis with a variety of different patients and how they treat them. During this process, I learned how to interact with patients and their families in a professional manner, learned the difference between high-functioning and low-functioning patients, and learned how the treatments vary based on the child’s needs.
