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Honors Senior Thesis (Howard 2024)
I am extremely delighted to share my Senior Thesis which I have written as part of Howard University's College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) Honors Program! This paper focuses on the optimization of fatty acyl chain lengths for making solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) that are both small and highly stable over time. SLNs, which are nanometer-scale structures made of solid lipids (fats), have been an effective drug delivery medium since the 1990s, especially for nucleic acid therapeutics (such as mRNA). Lipid nanoparticles have become well-known in recent times due to their use in several COVID-19 vaccines to encapsulate the SARS-CoV-2's spike protein mRNA. Solid lipid nanoparticles have advantages over nanoparticles made with liquid lipids in that they are easier to manufacture and do not require refrigeration to maintain stability. These current studies will be beneficial for optimizing SLNs for delivery to Global South communities without access to refrigeration, which will contribute to better global health outcomes.
Honors Senior Thesis_Howard 2024_Rashid, Raiyan.pdfNon-Academic Piece: How Many Rooms in this House? My Alternative Model for the Human Brain (July 2020)
Non-Academic Piece: How Many Rooms in this House? My Alternative Model for the Human Brain (July 2020)
My first non-academic piece (involving light research) that I wrote during the summer between Grade 12 and freshman year of college. It explores my own video-game-inspired metaphor for the human brain and its capacity to store ever-increasing amounts of information. It was a fun little project to write during the pandemic, as well as to collaborate with one of my artist friends (picture credit inside)!
Raiyan Rashid_How Many Rooms in This House_My Alternative Model for the Human Brain.pdfLiterary Research Paper: Latitudes of Longing: An Eco-Scheherazade's Discourse on Earth and Society (March 2020)
Literary Research Paper: Latitudes of Longing: An Eco-Scheherazade's Discourse on Earth and Society (March 2020)
My first ever academic research paper, written during the final semester of Grade 12. This paper is based on the 2018 eco-fiction novel Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup. Writing it required a level of rigor unlike any of my prior assignments in school, and so it prepared me very well for my future writings, including college essays, personal statements, and more.
Latitudes of Longing Research Paper.pdfAbolitionist Dissent (History, Spring 2023)
HIST 015: Abolitionist Dissent in England and America is an Honors history course I took in my junior year (Spring 2023). Taught by the amazing historian Dr. Kay Wright Lewis, this course invites students to search for and bring to light the voices of all the different communities in England and the Americas that brought about the end of slavery in the New World. It has been my most challenging course at Howard so far and also the most rewarding. The writings for this class compelled me to read through text sources and skim over research articles more extensively than any other undergraduate course before, science or non-science. Suffice it to say, I'm glad all that extra rigor paid off! I have attached the last two essays for this course separately from the Academics section, just because I'm proud of how they have made me grow both as a researcher and as a writer. 😊
Essay 2
Essay 2
Talks about how the voices, humanity and ingenuity of people of African descent shone through the archival sources in the New World in the 17th-19th centuries.
Abolitionist Dissent Second Paper - Raiyan Rashid.pdfEssay 3
Essay 3
Provides some vignettes of soldiers of African descent, both free and enslaved, who were recruited into British and American defense forces, and how this would forever change the structures of said organization.
Abolitionist Dissent Third (Final) Paper - Raiyan Rashid.pdfPage updated
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