This summer, I participated in the Summer for Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program (SURF), at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. This program involves pairing with a mentor in either the UC Medical School or CCHMC, and engaging in biomedical research throughout the summer. I was paired with Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, PhD, who I met and worked with through the UHP Biomed RaMP program. This summer, the primary focus of my research was in dyslexia. We studied the brains of children with dyslexia, as compared to normal controls, while they listened to a story, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in order to determine what areas they activated while listening to these stories, and if their activation was the same as typical readers, as dyslexia is often considered to be a disorder which only impacts the reading skills of those affected. We tested nineteen children, with and without dyslexia in an fMRI during resting state and while they participated in this narrative comprehension task. My role in this study was mainly to analyze the results of these scans, and render images that displayed these results. I also wrote up a poster, which I presented at the SURF Capstone Presentation, and wrote a paper to be submitted for publication on the subject. Below you will find the poster which I presented at the conference .