Last summer, I had the opportunity to attend UC COSMOS at UC Irvine — a four-week residential program where high school students get to live on a university campus and do actual science. My cluster focused on how bacteria respond to changing environments, and honestly, it was one of the most eye-opening experiences I've had. I went in knowing I was interested in biology, but I came out with a whole new appreciation for how complex — and how personal — microbiology really is.

True leadership is like the hours spent on the golf practice range—quiet, repetitive, and often unnoticed—which eventually allows for a successful drive when the stakes are highest. In both golf and volunteering, I have realized that the core of leadership is not found in the spotlight, but in the ethics of the "long game" and the personal accountability of every decision made. This mix of responsibility and persistence became the foundation for my volunteering in global heal

Scientifically, the yips are often classified as task-specific focal dystonia which is a neurological condition where highly trained, automatic motor patterns become disrupted. Instead of smooth coordination between cortical motor planning areas and the peripheral muscles, communication becomes noisy or erratic. This can produce things like involuntary spasms, tremors, freezing or "locking", and sudden jerky motions. Basically, the motor system temporarily stops “cooperating,

When I first came across the movie Concussion (2015), I didn’t necessarily focus on the story about football (even though I love the sport)! I saw a story about the brain and the lengths that science can cross. This film follows Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in NFL players. His work revealed that repeated head injuries could lead to long-term brain disease — and his determination forced an entire industry to confront truths it wante

Recently, I read this science paper (MIND and Mediterranean Diets Associated with Later Onset of Parkinson’s Disease). I found something i hadn't previously known: evidence suggests that eating a Mediterranean diet can delay the onset of Parkinson's Disease. For example, some items from the diet contain green leafy vegetables, berries, nuts, more fish intake, less red meat, and olive oil. (Typically the healthier meals that doesn't always satisfy our tastebuds like junk food

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