Samiya Alam is attending her freshman year at the Ohio State University (OSU), where she is majoring in neuroscience with an interest in the pre-medical pathway. Her eagerness to build an academic foundation in the field of neuroscience stems from the experience she gained during her junior year of high school in her psychology class, as she became fascinated by the complexity of the human brain and its role in memory, behaviors, and producing sensations and experiences. From this experience, Samiya was inspired to appease her hunger for knowledge by conducting her own research at OSU’s Supercomputer Summer Insititute on intracellular transportation, where she studied how a blockage of motor proteins can often lead to neurogenerative diseases. In the future, Samiya aspires to continue conducting her own research and practice as a physician. In high school, she was heavily involved in her student government and volunteer work at the Riverside Methodist Hospital. Samiya also spends her spare time traveling to new places and baking for her friends and family.