Sarah Omachi

- Building knowledge in the education field through assisting the lab with mindfulness program implementation in a school - Assisting and mentoring fellow lab members with education and developmental psychology research concepts

- Assisted in the preparation for Dr. Joy Ee’s research project on bilingual education and Black/African American communities - Collected and reviewed existing literature on this topic - Provided useful measures and materials for the launch of this project’s data collection

- Assisted the lab as a research assistant for the PRRISM (Psychosocial Risk & Resilience in Stress & Medicine) lab - Analyzed data that is associated with smoking stigma and lung cancer - Analyzed the data on how stress from social interactions may be related to a lung cancer patient’s mental health and physical health - Collected data on how compassion intervention therapy may have buffering effects on feelings on shame

- Participated in an eight-week seminar, starting from an inquiry point, to conduct advanced literature searches, narrow down a research question, and finally analyze and synthesize scholarly work into a literature review - Learned how to search within databases effectively, navigate peer-reviewed articles, annotate and organize sources, and synthesize multiple sources into a logically coherent argument

- Planned and hosted executive board meetings - Worked closely with faculty mentors to plan and host events that would create a close-knit Psychology student community - Contacted guest speakers for panels that facilitate networking opportunities for students - Hosted discussions on methods and advice on how to flourish professionally and academically

- Teaching English to a group of 20 students (elementary to high school) with 2-3 other teachers - Adapting to each student's ability - Preparing students for the EIKEN test

- Weekly babysitter and English tutor for a 9-year-old girl - Ensuring the safety of the child - Crafting interesting English activities

- Taking care of groups of 10 young children (around the age of 5-10 years old) - Thinking of fun English activities - Preparing children for the EIKEN English test - Ensuring the children's safety

- Doing research for the organization - Translation and transcription (Japanese to English) - Building the Tokyo Engish Life Line mental health resource website - Creating a presentation on high school test anxiety, study tips, and social anxiety

Cumulative GPA: 4.0

- 3.95 cumulative GPA, Summa cum Laude - Phi Beta Kappa honor society - Psi Chi International Honor Society - Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society - Psychology Honor Program - Dean's List - Active member of the Academic Community of Excellence Program - International Student Advisory Board (ISAB) for the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts