Research in this field is exciting. A senior, Cholfin has spent four years in the laboratory of Daniel Geschwind, director of the neurogenetics program and assistant professor of neurology. For Cholfin, research provided something that he couldn't get from his classroom experience. My classes have been great, but in class, you're presented mostly with the solid facts. You have to deal with uncertainty.
Research is like a jigsaw puzzle.
As you fill in the pieces, the picture becomes clearer. I hope to be able to fill in a piece of the language-development puzzle. Cholfin's awards and honors include four scholarships for academic excellence. He also founded UCLA's Neuroscience Undergraduate Society, whose members discuss new research and go to elementary and secondary classrooms to make presentations on the human brain. D. program at UC San Francisco after he graduates.