Nada Osman is a second year Human Biology and Society major at UCLA. She has been conducting research with Dr. Knowlton’s lab under mentorship from Dr. Barbara Knowlton and Sonya Ashikyan. Their work has focused on the brain’s ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC). How we selectively remember certain things better than others is determined by the mechanisms of the VLPFC. In this study the Knowlton Lab is trying to see if stimulating the left region of the VLFPC, using transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS), increases the firing of neural signals and thus our ability to remember. Their findings will also help us better understand whether this region increases our memory of more significant things, overall memory, or increases our memory of just significant things at the expense of the other memories. This work is important, as it can lead to a greater understanding of the role VLPFC plays in memory, and could result in a breakthrough memory-improving mechanism, using the non-invasive tdcs stimulation. Nada would like to give a big thank you to the CARE fellows program and her amazing mentors Dr. Barbara Knowlton and Sonya Ashikyan for their overwhelming support and guidance on the start of her research journey.