 My name is Emily Garcia. I study at the University of California, Berkeley. Here at Purdue, I am working with the Reagan-Steves Center for Healthcare Engineering in a long-term care project. My project focuses on reducing potentially avoidable hospital readmissions for the older population. We're looking into what are the risk factors that a patient might have that cost the patient to be admitted into hospital again after being discharged. By targeting those risk factors, we're hoping to build a discharge tool that hospitals can use to improve the quality of care that patients receive and therefore avoid hospital readmission in the future. We have a lot of opportunity in the center. We have lots of data. We have a nice environment for students to come in. It gives them an opportunity to sort of learn how to do research reports, research presentations, and that's a really valuable skill. It's one thing to do good research, but it's just as important to be able to communicate it and surf does a good job at helping to develop those skills. By coming here, I've learned that I do want to pursue healthcare engineering in the future. I want to pursue a PhD. I'm successful not only for the faculty members that I've gotten to work with or meet, but it's also everyone else here at the center such as like Sarah or there is Diana and she's a visiting professor from Mexico. So I've gotten to meet people from across the country and everyone is super nice. They all asked me about my project. I think in the end, I'm really going to miss them a lot. And one of the things that I learned from Paul is knowing that it was my first research project. He also let me be a little bit more independent as a researcher. And that helped me learn that yes, I can do this on my own. I will be able to do research in grad school. So I'm ready to do the next step in the fall.