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Motivation Application Essay Sample

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I am writing to apply for the PhD program, Neuroscience, at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine (UMMSM). I am a graduate of Montclair State University, NJ, with a double major in biology and psychology. I have completed my high school in a war-torn country, Afghanistan. In 2006, after high school, alongside, it was not safe for women, I did not have adequate for options to continue my higher education in sciences. Therefore, it was feasible to start working for international organizations in database related position, so started as a database operator and resigned from as database developer, as I received a fully funded scholarship to continue my education in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan at American University of Central Asia …show more content…

As a sophomore student, I was introduced to biological sciences’ research method in which I was involved in a two consecutive semesters research project program, Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science. The research project was combined with general biology I and classes’ lab work. At the first semester, my lab partner and I isolated a unique bacteriophage DNA and at the second semester, we annotated its sequenced genome. This was research published on E-life journal and I was contented be to an information contributor for this publication.
After this research experience my interest in research was amplified, hence, I joined in another research project at the Sentence Comprehension Lab, Psychology Department, Montclair State University, directed by Dr. David Townsend. The research enquired verbs’ telicity (boundedness) interactions in conjunction with adverb phrase types. I conducted language and eye-tracking experiments for five semesters in this lab. I was responsible for running experiments daily, and record data for analysis and analyzing of the data for my project using SPSS and various proprietary data analysis software. During my last semester, I was given the opportunity to present the research significant findings with Dr. Townsend at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2016. The conference gave me a broader

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