Student of Distinction Award (SODA)
Recipient of Southwestern College’s highest student award, recognizing academic excellence, leadership, and commitment to a goal or purpose.
Academics
Psychology, research, and data
A selected public academic record focused on psychology, research methods, statistics, data analysis, and work that turns evidence into useful systems.
Education
Southwestern College
Psychology for Transfer (AA-T)
Degree completed with honors in one yearSpring 2026
His coursework built a foundation in psychological research design, behavioral statistics, data analysis, cognition, critical writing, communication, and programming.
Fall 2026-2028 · Experimental Psychology B.S.
University of California, San Diego
Incoming psychology transfer with an intended focus on cognition and behavioral research.
Academic contact: [email protected]
Recognition
Linked to Southwestern College’s official award and academic-recognition criteria.
President’s List
Four-time honoree for 4.0 semester academic performance at Southwestern College.
Coursework
Selected completed courses, organized by institution.
Southwestern College
Selected completed coursework · SPRING 2025 - SPRING 2026
Research + data
- PSYC 255Introduction to Psychological Research
- PSYC 270Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
- PSYC 271Data Analysis in Psychology and Sociology
- CIS 106Introduction to Programming Logic and Design Using Python
Behavior + cognition
- PSYC 211Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
- PSYC 116Introduction to Social Psychology
- PSYC 260Introduction to Physiological Psychology
- PSYC 250Abnormal Psychology
Writing + communication
- ENGL C1001Critical Thinking and Writing
- COMM 104Public Speaking
- COMM 174Interpersonal Communication
Selected academic work
Public work with academic research, source, or documentation foundations.
Social Justice through Financial Literacy
An argument for teaching financial capability through real accounts and guided experience, written before the federal Trump Accounts program became law.
Comparing Opposing Texts on the Death Penalty
A comparison of authority, evidence, emotion, tone, and accessibility in opposing Federalist Society and Amnesty International texts.
Attention Bias Modification and Aggression
A course research proposal asking whether attention-bias modification could reduce hostile attention bias and aggression among justice-impacted young adults. The study was not conducted.
Research and Publishing Systems
Source-checking, information-structure, and page-verification workflows, including a UCSD Psychology transfer handbook assembled from official program and policy sources.
Self-Inflicted Pain as Error Correction
A five-study research program defining a possible error-correction function of self-injury and testing whether nonpunitive correction can preserve learning and accountability.