RESEARCH
Nutritional Sciences Lab
Urbana, IL; January 2015-Present
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Distinguished between normal and abnormal values of cholesterol, glucose, triglycerides and HDL after running assays
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Strenthened my interpersonal skills by working with graduate students, other undergraduate students, and participants
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Enter data from 5 surveys for 80 participants using various Excel spreadsheets and Nutrition Data System for Research (NDSR)
Neurocognitive Kinesiology Lab
Urbana, IL; November 2014-Present
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Analyze data I entered using SPSS Statistics to ultimately present a research poster at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in Spring 2016
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Teach other graduate and undergraduate students how to use the NDSR software
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Enter 50 participant's diet recall and record entries using Nutrition Data System for Research (NDSR)
University of Illinois Dining Halls
Champaign-Urbana, IL; September-November 2014
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Targeted students eating in dining halls around campus and encouraged them to participate in a survey that determined whether or not they paid attention to nutrition labels
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Observed foods that students chose at lunch and dinner by recording the meal with a picture and the student's guess of the caloric density of their meal
