SHELLY THAO
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EXPERIENCE
MAY 2018 – CURRENT
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS Responsible for the rabies project, collecting data, running experiments independently, training other students, making posters for presentations, and documenting lab notes JANUARY 2019 – NOVEMBER 2019
STUDENT ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS COLLEGE OF FISHERIES AND OCEAN SCIENCES
Filing faculty folders, organizing credit card receipts, assisting the Human Resources and Financial Manager in tasks, answering phone calls
JANUARY 2018 – MAY 2018
STUDENT ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Filing test scores, watering plants, clerical duties, working in the banner system, communicating between supervisors, assisting the assistant to the dean and admin assistant, organizing data in excel spreadsheets
AUGUST 2017 – DECEMBER 2017
RESIDENT ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS RESIDENCE LIFE Ensure the safety of students, verifying identification, on-call for questions, organizing the office, communicating to supervisor and other Resident Assistants, putting in requests for damages and maintenance work
JUNE 2010 – AUGUST 2017
LABORER, VANDERWEELE FARMS LLC
Various labor work, harvesting and packaging vegetables and fruits, customer service, selling produce, cash handling, and communication between supervisors OCTOBER 2014 – MAY 2016
STUDENT ASSISTANT, MAT-SU COLLEGE
Assisted the Lab Manager in setting-up and cleaning-up biology, chemistry, and microbiology labs, restocking solutions. Held study sessions for students to utilize additional time to work with anatomy and physiology models or slides. 2
EDUCATION
MAY 2014
DIPLOMA, COLONY HIGH SCHOOL
GPA 3.71
MAY 2016
AAS GENERAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE GPA 3.60
AUGUST 2018
AS SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS
GPA 3.00
MAY 2020 (EXPECTED)
BS BIOCHEMISTRY WITH MUSIC MINOR, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS GPA 3.18
SKILLS
• 2 years of undergraduate research experience
• Friendly
• Critical thinking skills
• Experience with running samples in the 300
MHz and 600 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(NMR) machines
• Experience with Prism GraphPad
• Knows how to work with Microsoft 360
• Creative
• Hard-working
• Flexible
• Mentoring experience
• Tutoring experience
• Openness
• Neat and organized
• Clean note-taking
ACTIVITIES
I have volunteered at the Mat-Su Regional Hospital for 6 months and at a local animal shelter for events. I have been a Student Support Services Student Ambassador for First-Generation students. As an undergraduate researcher, I have presented five different times in 2019: four poster presentations were done locally in Alaska, and one poster presentation was at a national conference (Society for Neuroscience) in Chicago.