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Midwest Movement Science Symposium
Midwest Movement Science Symposium
May 9, 2025 || The Midwest Movement Science Symposium aims to bring together movement scientists throughout the Midwest to share ongoing projects and provide encouraging feedback. We have 14 poster presenters and 10 oral presentations from graduate students and faculty from a range of universities including U Minnesota, U Wisconsin-Madison, Michigan State, and Iowa State. Our keynote presentation will be given by NIH NINDS Program Director Daofen Chen, with a talk is titled "Research Opportunities and Capacities for Human Movement Science". The event will be hosted at the University of Minnesota.
Check out the event details here.
Spring Research Day 2024
Spring Research Day 2024
April 18, 2024 || The 2024 Spring Research Day brought together 60 attendees from 10 university departments at the University of Minnesota. There were a range of talks and poster presentations covering sensory sciences in able-bodied and individuals with sensory loss. We had two keynote presentations from Dr. Rachel Hawe (University of Minnesota) and Dr. David Brang (University of Minnesota) who spoke on vision loss in neurological disorders and cross-modal sensory use during transient sensory impairments, respectively. This event was organized through a collaborative effort involving Jaeeun Lee, Arda Fidanci, Dr. Michael Smith, Rachel Gage, Dr. Andrew Oxenham, and myself.
Check out the event details here.
See select photos from the event here.
Spring Research Day 2023
Spring Research Day 2023
April 13 - 14, 2023 || My co-chair, Shelby Ziccardi, and I organized Spring Research Day, hosted by the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science at the University of Minnesota. The event brought together 82 attendees (faculty, staff, students, and the public) from 26 departments at the university to share their ongoing research in sensory science. The event emphasized accessibility for individuals with motor, visual, and hearing impairments, by ensuring that all aspects of the event, including materials, presentations, and the venue itself was accessible and accommodating to all. On the first day, there were 10 workshops covering topics including methods to measure the brain and body, science communication, and a panel on ethical science within disability communities. The second day included both oral and poster presentations from students and postdoctoral scholars. Our keynote speaker was Dr. Laurie King from Oregon Health Sciences University, who gave a talk titled, "Sensorimotor Rehabilitation: Finding Meaning in Science".
Check out the event details here.
See select photos from the event here.
American Society of Biomechanics - Student Chapter
American Society of Biomechanics - Student Chapter
2021 - Present || In April 2021, our chapter hosted a virtual National Biomechanics Day 2021 event. We created four videos for high school teachers and students become aware of and learn about the field of biomechanics. Check out this website to see our event.
The Global Shapers
The Global Shapers
2018-2020 || As a graduate student at the University of Las Vegas, I searched for ways to involve myself in the community and found the Las Vegas hub of the Global Shapers. An extension of the World Economic Forum, the Global Shapers self-organize to create projects that address the needs of the local community. During my two year tenure, I helped run the Make-A-Thon and Make-A-Thon2.0 where students from Las Vegas valley came together for a weekend to collaborate, invent, and pitch ideas to local entrepreneurs. For the 2019-2020 term, I was the Vice President of the hub. I organized our volunteering events around the city of Las Vegas.
Blue Key National Honor Society
Blue Key National Honor Society
2017-2018 || As a member of the North Dakota State University (NDSU) - Blue Key National Honor Society chapter, I had the opportunity to serve my local community through fundraising and service. During my senior year of college, I helped raise over $15,000 for local non-profits as well as organize the Homecoming and Brevities shows at NDSU. I spent many weeknights handing out food at the food pantry, ringing bells for the Salvation Army, and keeping the library open during study and finals weeks. This community showed me the impact that my actions have on others and the reward service gives me and others. It was through this time that I discovered that I want to give back in any way that I can, whether that be through knowledge dissemination to students, academics, stakeholders, or by developing medical interventions to improve quality of life outcomes for individuals with impairments.
Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC)
Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC)
2015-2018 || For three years I served as a softball representative to the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) at North Dakota State University. In this time I helped organize food drives, toy drives, and fundraisers to for local non-profit organizations. In addition, I helped to organize student-athlete events to bring the student-athletes together to facilitate unity. In my final year, I served as the Vice President of the council and acted as the liaison from the students to the administration.
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