Isabella Batallas

Excitedly graduated with a 3.9 GPA as a Honors Scholar: Summa Cum Laude. I earned my bachelor's degree in Biology and obtained a minor in Applied Statistics and Data Analysis. I also had a cord for participating in the Recruitment, Retention, and Progression to Graduation (RRPG) Program for Hispanic/Latino Students.

Energetically maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average

Successfully accepted as an Honor Student of Kennesaw State University. I took multiple courses including Organic Chemistry II as honors and various other courses to make me a more rounded individual.

Passionately translated biochemical ideas into interactive and knowledgeable group and individual activities in a safe and open learning environment.

Professionally connected with professors, other leaders and students in office hours to enhance my performance as well as the performance of others and the program itself.

Educated the new staff on the Fifth Group values for creating a unique dining experience for the guest.
Demonstrated and enforced being productive among all coworkers.
Generated a positive and fun attitude, while quickly keeping up with the brunch rushes.
Provided a pleasant and efficient experience for the guests by meeting their food and service expectations.

Artistically prepared students for course by demonstrating effective study habits and providing resources to enhance their critical thinking with the aid of their peers and me.
Respectively collaborated with other SI leaders, supervisor and my assigned professor to benefit the program, the students, and drive my tutoring efforts.

Proficiently presented my partner's and my binary regression model that we created using SAS and R.

Confidently vocalized my scorpion research and gained perspectives of other undergraduate and graduate research findings.

Isabella Batallas, C. Neal McReynold, Kelci Knight, Whitney Smith, Thomas McElroy and Eric A. Albrecht: Centruroides vittatus scorpions were delivered to me to be fed, measured, and weighed before being housed individually and watered daily, as well as fed Acheta domesticus (crickets). After 4 months of living in these controlled environmental conditions, extraction of their venom began. I resourcefully had to prepare a structured method for extracting the scorpions’ venom and once collected, I ran very careful and tedious tests, such as protein estimation and SDS-PAGE. My research is comparing mature individual scorpions, and separately, comparing pooled scorpions of different grouped sizes to determine if there are additional reasons to venom variation besides the environmental factors I controlled.