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Portrait of Jingmei Sun

Honor Society® member

Jingmei Sun

Research Assistant on the project of Metacarpals and Metatarsals’ Incomplete Specimen of Macaca mulatta Living in the Taihang Mountains at Dr. Xiaojin Zhao’s lab, College of Life Science in Henan Normal University

  • University of Texas at Dallas
  • Human Development and Early Childhood Disorders
  • Class of 2014
  • Richardson, Texas

Member since December 2013

About

Willing to help children with special needs as my future career

Education

  • University of Texas at Dallas

    Human Development and Early Childhood Disorders

    2013 – 2015

  • University of Texas at Dallas

    Molecular and Cell Biology

    2012

  • Henan Normal University, China

    Biotechnology

    2007 – 2011

Honors and awards

  • Distinguished Graduate Award, Henan Normal University, China 2011

    Only 1/40 of the students in the school will receive this honor. It represents students' success in both academic and leadership

  • Excellent Undergraduate Scholarship, Henan Normal University, China (twice) 2010, 2009

    Students' academic success; rank top 10 out of 300 students

  • The Second Prize for National English Contest for College Students, China, 2009

    National competetion

  • University Excellent Servicing Award at Student Union (three times) 2010, 2009, 2008

    Represents excellent leadership

Goals and interests

Career goal

Child Development
Child Life
ABA therapy working with Autistic Spectrum Disorders children.

Graduate school interests

Doing intervention with children with special needs
Joining activities of the Chinese student union

Outside the classroom

Playing piano/keyboard, reading, cooking, fishing, singing.

Experience

  • Research Assistant on the project of Metacarpals and Metatarsals’ Incomplete Specimen of Macaca mulatta Living in the Taihang Mountains

    Dr. Xiaojin Zhao’s lab, College of Life Science in Henan Normal University

    Jun 2008 – Oct 2010

Volunteering

  • Home visitor to do play-base intervention with Chinese-English Bilingual young children with Autistic Spectrum

    Sep 2013 – May 2014

  • Leader--teaching science to special needs children in the local Center for Mental Retarded Children

    Student union of College of Life Science

    Nov 2007 – Nov 2010

Languages

  • Chinese (Simplified) Advanced
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) Intermediate
  • English (US) Fluent