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My research experience has been fulfilling and rewarding in terms of it being an intellectual challenge. I work essentially a full 40 hours every week, and it seems there is always something to prepare for, an experiment to set up/run, papers to read, meetings to be had, and of course, mice needing quite of bit…

Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that my research has been going really well!!! It was a rocky start at the beginning, I’m not going to lie. From starting a bit late to showing up to a meeting having done something completely wrong, I’m glad my mentor and I are still chugging along during this…

Through my research I have been able to continue work that I have done as well as learn new things. I have been learning more details and becoming very comfortable with processes and protocols where I am more confident in being able to do the work than I was when I first started. It has…

So far my role in Professor Mendoza’s research has taken the form of archival work. I’ve been collecting data from enlistment records gathered from the Colorado Archives. This work has given me a window into some of the characteristic differences of the era I’m studying (the late 1890s to early 1900s) compared to the present.…

  One challenging topic I have been reading/learning about is abortion and fetal prescreening. On one hand I am very pro-choice. Still, I cannot ignore how the generational Down Syndrome population, for example, has drastically shrunk. It does make me nervous that genetic pre-screenings have been devised to “alert” parents to signs of non-normativity. I initially…

My research project is developing a clinically relevant core outcome set concerning prenatal care to standardize outcome selection across future studies. We are specifically looking into the frequency of prenatal visits and the method of delivery of prenatal care.  To achieve a core outcome set, we will use eDelphi survey methods to determine key stakeholders’…

  Dear future self, As you know, my name is Buu-Hac Nguyen. To my friends, Buu. I am a first-generation college student and rising senior studying Biology, Health, and Society with a minor in Gender and Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I transferred to U-M after my freshman year at a New…

I am working researching the immune response that occurs during pregnancy in order to better understand miscarriage, and in future hopes to have the ability to prevent it. We implant scaffolds into mice in order to remove them and monitor the immune cells along with other cells within the scaffold. We do this to see…

This summer, I will be working with the Family Medicine Department at Michigan Medicine on the ENDS Study. The ENDS Study – Equity in Newborn Drug Screening Study – is under the Antiracism and Health Equity Program through the medical school. One of the main goals of the project is to examine the racial disparities…

My summer fellowship project is called Harmony in the HomeLab. One of the main goals of the project is to monitor co-parenting and parent attunement during the covid-19 lockdowns which was done using online surveys. Another main goal is to monitor co-parenting and physiological responses to small stress inducing tasks. This will be done by…