Chenyu Zhang

Majoring in Biology, Minoring in Economics
Lafayette College, Class of 2019
From Singapore

Biology Major and Economics Minor at Lafayette College Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, Writing Associate and Gateway Ambassador at Lafayette College Previous Internship Student at A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore), and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at National Institutes of Health (USA)

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Education

Lafayette College
Raffles Institution

Chenyu in the News

Chenyu Zhang of Singapore Named to Dean's List at Lafayette College

Chenyu Zhang of Singapore has been named to the 2016 fall semester Dean's List at Lafayette College for outstanding academic achievement. To qualify for Dean's List, a student must achieve at leas...

February, 28 2017 - Lafayette College

Chenyu Zhang of Singapore Named to Dean's List at Lafayette College

Chenyu Zhang of Singapore has been named to the 2016 spring semester Dean's List at Lafayette College for outstanding academic achievement. To qualify for Dean's List, a student must achieve at le...

July, 19 2016 - Lafayette College

Chenyu Zhang of Singapore Named to Dean's List at Lafayette College

Chenyu Zhang of Singapore has been named to the 2015 fall semester Dean's List at Lafayette College for outstanding academic achievement. To qualify for Dean's List, a student must achieve at least...

February, 25 2016 - Lafayette College

Chenyu Zhang of Singapore Enrolls at Lafayette College

Lafayette College welcomes Chenyu Zhang of Singapore to the Class of 2019, the most academically powerful class in Lafayette's history. Chenyu is a graduate of Raffles Institution. Studies have be...

September, 25 2015 - Lafayette College

Achievements Added by Chenyu

Chenyu Zhang was recognized for undergraduate research activities

Student Research Expense Grant awarded by the Academic Research Committee for research project: Analysis of Granulocytes and Macrophages Infiltrating a Primary Tumor Site within the first 72h.

Fall 2017 - Added by Chenyu

Chenyu Zhang was recognized for academic excellence

Eugene P. Chase Phi Beta Kappa Prize -- awarded to sophomores who have demonstrated scholarship as first-year students

Spring 2017 - Added by Chenyu

Activities

Kids In the Community

An after-school program for children who attend Paxinosa Elementary School. The program offers mentoring structured activity and homework to help students. It runs Monday and Wednesday from 3pm-530pm.

Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 - Lafayette College

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Work Experience

EXCEL Scholar at Lafayette College

Working with Prof Olena Ogrokhina on a Macroeconomics project about price adjustments during the Great Recession across Eurozone

February 2017 - Present

Research Assistant at Lafayette College

Chemistry Department, Organic Chemistry Lab Responsible for testing and refining protocols to be added into the organic chemistry lab syllabus

January 2017 - Present

Teaching Assistant (SEA-PHAGES lab) at Lafayette College

Help facilitate the lab and assist the instructor-in-charge, provide students with appropriate feedback, helpful comments on written work, provide students with positive learning experiences, motivate student inquiry, and guide points of discussion and interpretation of results. Also, includes pre-lab preparations, cleaning the lab after class is over, and assisting in special projects or exercises in the course.

August 2016 - Present

Writing Associate at Lafayette College

Provide informed and intelligent readings of work-in-progress to help students formulate and answer difficult questions about their own writing. WA support is a way of improving students’ critical reasoning and analytical skills through meaningful conversations with peers. Also required to prepare for and actively participate in WA staff meetings, and work eight 90-minute shifts in CWP’s WA Drop-in Hours. WA Assignments: HIST 118: Intro to Cold War EVST 290: Climate Change

August 2016 - Present

Independent Study at Lafayette College

Working with Prof Robert Kurt on the analysis of granulocytes and macrophages infiltrating a primary tumor site in mice.

January 2016 - Present

Internship Student at A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Working on a project titled: Identification and Characterization of a New Human Kidney Progenitor

January 2015 - Present

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