Olivia Denae Parker

Responsible and motivated student ready to apply education in the workplace. Offers excellent technical abilities with software and applications, ability to handle challenging work, and excellent time management skills. Recent graduate with excellent research, technical and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented and able to learn new concepts quickly.

• School of Graduate Studies Dean’s Fellowship Recipient at Rutgers University, 09/01/2022 - 06/30/2023
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) E-Poster Awardee, 11/13/2021, Engineering, Physics and Mathematics
• Scholars Institute Fellows Program (SIFP Fellow), 2015-2019
• Principedia Article Winner, 2015 & 2016
• Freshman Scholars Institute Participant, Summer 2015

• Initiative for Maximizing Student Development, Piscataway, NJ, Student Associate, 09/01/2022, Present, Participates in professional development events geared to help underrepresented students in STEM succeed in their respective fields.
• McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, McGraw Learning Consultant, 04/2017, Spring 2019, Worked with students to help them figure out effective study strategies and time management skills. Planned and conducted a goal setting workshop for about ten Freshman Scholars (Summer 2018).
• SIFP (Scholars Institute Fellows Program) STEM Fellowship, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Coursework in Chemistry and Physics at Rutgers University, Summer 2016 & Summer 2018, Helped organize a program to allow about fifteen Freshman Scholars to explore majors at Princeton while taking classes.
• SIFP Think Tank, Princeton, NJ, Head and Founder, 02/2016, 04/2018, The group was comprised of three students and three faculty members that came up with proposals on how to improve academics at Princeton University. Spearheaded the collaboration between SIFP students and faculty over academic and cultural issues on campus in a focus group in 2016. Planned and conducted meetings with members.

• Youth Co-Leader at Community Church, Virtual, 03/2021, Present, Works with colleague to plan and lead virtual discussions, prayer nights and games for the teens and young adults at the church.
• NJSEEDS Meeting Coordinator, Princeton, NJ, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, NJSEEDS is an organization that helps first-generation and/or low-income students receive admission into selective college-preparatory schools throughout the United States. Initiated and organized meetings with NJSEEDS alums on Princeton’s campus to provide a space to meet other first generation and/or low income students from the program. NJSEEDS alumna (Class of 2011).

• ABRCMS (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students) 2021, Virtual, Poster Presenter, 11/10/2021, Tumor Spheroid on a Wire: Validating a Novel Method to Evaluate Internal Ablation Utilizing Three-Dimensional Tumor Spheroids
• NIH Post-bac Poster Day, Virtual, Poster Presenter, 04/28/2021, Analysis of the Impact of Internal Ablation on Pierced Spheroids
• NIH Post-bac Poster Day, Virtual, Poster Presenter, 04/28/2020, 3D Tumor Spheroid’s Potential Role in Interventional Oncology Research
• BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) Conference 2017, Phoenix, AZ, Poster Presenter, 10/11/2017, Expansion Microscopy to Image Cell Internalization of Lanthanide UCNPs (UCNPs: Up-Converting Nanoparticles)

• Rutgers University-Biomedical Engineering, Piscataway, NJ, Ph.D. Student, 09/2022, Present, Valerie Tutwiler Ph.D., Researching immune mediated thrombosis.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Post-baccalaureate (Post-bac) IRTA Program, Bethesda, MD, Post-bac IRTA (Intramural Research Training Award) Research Fellow in the Clinical Center, 09/2019, 07/2022, Bradford J. Wood, M.D., Conducted research in the Center for Interventional Oncology. Introduced a 3D tumor spheroid model protocol to the lab with the goal to inform and complement animal studies. Validated a 3D tumor spheroid ablation methodology.
• Senior Thesis Research at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2018, Spring 2019, José L. Avalos, Ph.D., Conducted research in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department. Metabolically engineered yeast strains to overproduce branched chained higher alcohols via optogenetics. Thesis Title: “Optogenetic regulation of branched-chain higher alcohol biosynthesis to control advanced biofuel blends.”
• UCSD (University of California, San Diego) Biomaterials REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates), San Diego, CA, Undergraduate Researcher, 06/27/2017, 08/18/2017, Adah Almutairi, Ph.D., Conducted research in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Worked on developing an expansion microscopy lab protocol for cells that have absorbed nanoparticles.