FWS Student Highlights: Ghita
Currently, I am working
on a Food and Nutrition project with Dr. Slavin. We started working on it since
fall 2015. I had different tasks to do within this project. We first had to
collect data through conducting surveys on George Mason campus, then sort the information
and analyze it through nutrition software. This project is still on going and
we are projected to have the final results for this study by the end of spring
2016. The first phase which was last semester focused more on data collection,
while this semester is more focused on sorting the data and analyzing it. Joining
this OSCAR Undergraduate Research position helped me tremendously improve my
time management, organization, and writing skills. Even though I already have
experience working with Excel, data entry and analysis in this project allowed
me to learn new tricks. I also got to work with a professional nutritional
software for the first time which was a great experience. I see this study very
much related to my long-term goals as I’m going into the health-care field and
as we all know; one’s nutritional habits have a great impact on their health. I
believe that nutrition is a key and maybe a solution to have a healthier
America. Working with Dr. Slavin on this project is helping me understand how
people or at least students within the campus population perceive their
nutritional habits. I am very excited to find the results of this study. I
think this will help me communicate better with patients as I’d understand
Nutrition from their side of the table.
Currently, I am working
on a Food and Nutrition project with Dr. Slavin. We started working on it since
fall 2015. I had different tasks to do within this project. We first had to
collect data through conducting surveys on George Mason campus, then sort the information
and analyze it through nutrition software. This project is still on going and
we are projected to have the final results for this study by the end of spring
2016. The first phase which was last semester focused more on data collection,
while this semester is more focused on sorting the data and analyzing it. Joining
this OSCAR Undergraduate Research position helped me tremendously improve my
time management, organization, and writing skills. Even though I already have
experience working with Excel, data entry and analysis in this project allowed
me to learn new tricks. I also got to work with a professional nutritional
software for the first time which was a great experience. I see this study very
much related to my long-term goals as I’m going into the health-care field and
as we all know; one’s nutritional habits have a great impact on their health. I
believe that nutrition is a key and maybe a solution to have a healthier
America. Working with Dr. Slavin on this project is helping me understand how
people or at least students within the campus population perceive their
nutritional habits. I am very excited to find the results of this study. I
think this will help me communicate better with patients as I’d understand
Nutrition from their side of the table.
