SCIENCE!
moments from study and research work
just a few fun things



Examining native mississippi buggies to illustrate for the MS
Entomological museum when I worked as their graphic designer. 
This is our wall full of pinned insects.



Day for Neuroscience

Starkville Public Library +
Neuroscience Club at MSU
(Multiple returning events)

Tristan Henderson, Biology Ph.D. student,
myself, senior researcher and science student,
and Charlie Thompson, junior researcher and
science student, pictured hosting “Day for
Neuroscience” at the Starkville Public Library.


i booked this event with the library
through neuroscience club at msu, the organization i founded.



more photos and the posters i made for the events.

Exploring ideas with stuffed animal dopamine molecule + neurons, brain models, and learning more about the microscope.
Our brain’s role in regulating our body temperature through perspiration (sweating). Showing how tiny sweat glands are.
Coloring our Neuroscience Club original coloring sheets!
Watching a salamander grow from one cell to a fully formed organism. Watch it here
Exploring other small things through the microscope (pond water, ew!).
Learning what an EEG cap is for and trying one on!
Viewing brain tissue samples on slides through the microscope.





A friend was being published in Nature. their lab wanted
some help with imaging technique for the cover. this is 
from us helping out in devising a (very temporary) holding 
tube for the insect and parasitic wasp so the photo could be
snapped. I used two microscope slides and clear hot glue.
Pourous putty to close the top for just a bit.
We safely returned them to their home in the lab after quick photos.




Neuroscience Club
at Mississippi State University
     As a sophomore at Mississippi State University, I founded the Neuroscience Club organization. Upon arriving at MSU, I had limited knowledge of both academia and the intricacies of neuroscience. When I searched for terms like 'brain' or 'neuroscience' on the university’s platforms, I found little information. Eventually, I discovered that neuroscience was present, though not always labeled as such. This realization inspired me to establish the club, and through this process, I was able to deepen my understanding of the field. The club quickly grew to over two hundred members and hosted a range of events, most notably two brain dissections. We also organized numerous outreach activities and provided opportunities to examine genuine neurons under the microscope. The club has become a unifying force for all neuroscience-related initiatives on campus, fostering growth in the field and playing a key role in the establishment of the university’s first official neuroscience minor.

As the president, I placed a priority in making our advertisement interesting. Myself and Gabriella Sutherland, Artist and President of Arts and Letters, work on creating all the club graphics ourselves.

Myself with fellow Executive officers, Emma and James




Brickfire Mentoring Project visiting day
Neuroscience Club visited the kids at brickfire
and we gave a short presentation about the nervous system.
We then made brain hats with them.





I have depicted tristan’s orb with scientific illustration.





We held an event at neuro club where we
invited the public to look inside of a microscope 
at real neurons/ neural tissue and also learn
a bit about how how to operate the microscope





general unsorted

slime mold
eeg
optogenetics talk with james for neuro club (james was the researcher)
harned hall, biology
felicity



A most recent article about our brain dissection(s) at Neuroscience Club

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