Yi Jan Ella Chen

Administrative assistant for marketing, communication, and social media efforts for the Government Research Relations (GRR) department in Office of Research Affairs

Campus Ambassadors start out as tour guides, staffing the Office of Admissions by taking walk-in appointments, answering emails, and picking up students' phone calls. Lead Campus Ambassadors make up the student leadership team: training CAs, hiring new staff, and coordinating administrative projects such as Triton Day.

MRI, CT, PET, BLI/FLI scans and ultrasounds of mouse studies, tumor harvests and organ sampling, monitoring studies in progress, assisting with the creation of study protocols

Pulmonary Lab investigating the effects of e-cigarettes on the lungs, heart and CNS. Currently assisting with projects looking at the effects of COVID-19 and vaping. Proposed and conducting a systematic literary review regarding the relationship between mental health disorders and vaping.

Staff Writer, News Editor, Editor in Chief for two years. The Triton is the all-digital, independent media outlet at UCSD. Serving as the face of the paper, meetings with administration, final content approval and paper decisions, staff management, content visionary, training workshops for new members, network with other student newspapers, writes The Current, biweekly newsletter. The Triton reaches an audience of 10,000 people weekly, has over 5,000 followers on social media, and engages with hundreds of readers daily on our website.

As an intern, I monitored studies, taking tumor measurements and body weights. I would participate in tumor harvests and dosing, assisting with projects that study directors would assign to research associates. The position required working in a fast-paced environment and familiarity with lab surroundings.

I taught second graders and fourth graders at an afterschool, teaching English, science, and writing curriculum to reinforce content they learn in school.