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Marjorie Sapphire Bowen-Kauth is a biology student triple minoring in chemistry, psychology, and painting from Greensboro, N.C. She is interested in studying psychiatric and developmental disorders and plans to attain a MD/Ph.D. in neurobiology and behavior. Bowen-Kauth chose to embark on her undergraduate career at Howard University because of the university’s sense of pride, community, and devotion in producing leaders in all disciplines. She aspires to implement her passion for the visual arts into her scientific career as creativity plays a significant role in stimulating the mind. Bowen-Kauth has invested time understanding art in the context of medicine by providing art workshops for patients and families at The National Children’s Hospital in Creative & Therapeutic Art Services. In order to discover her research interests, Bowen-Kauth worked in the Silva Lab at Duke University as a part of the 2019 Summer Research Opportunity Program, where her project focused on using BioID in mammalian cells to identify interacting partners with ubiquitin enzymes involved in the oxidative stress response. On Howard’s campus, Bowen-Kauth is a mentor for the PHAGES Biology Lab, where she assists freshmen in learning foundational research skills and initiating their own projects. She is excited to expand her research experiences in neurological sciences so that she may investigate how to heal minds through art and science.