Dr. Youngshin Park is a visiting scholar at UNCG for the period of February 4, 2019 to March 31, 2023. Dr. Park has made numerous valuable contributions to the research enterprise at UNCG. For our NIH-funded R01 called Physical Activity and Alzheimer’s Disease – II, he took the lead on developing a completely contact-less cognitive testing protocol to mitigate the risk of transmission of the COVID-19 virus. This was particularly impressive because it involved learning to use a number of programming packages including Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), WaveNet voice (en-US-Wavenet- D), PsychoPy Experiment Builder, and Python. This contact-less protocol undoubtedly contributed to our ability to resume data collection for PAAD-II while also reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission for participants and staff. Dr. Park also created an avatar to lead participants through the protocol and this demonstrated his growing comfort with establishing a rapport with research participants. In addition, Dr. Park has recruited, trained, and secured funding for several undergraduate students who are contributing to his independent community-engaged research focused on synchronized music as a means of increasing exercise adherence and, concomitantly, the positive outcomes of exercise. This work is important because it gives Dr. Park an opportunity to mentor students while also exposing them to research experiences and providing a service to the community. He currently has a program in place at Heritage Green where students lead frail elderly residents in group exercise synchronized to music. He has also published work in Frontiers for Young Minds to share this idea with school-aged students (https://kids.frontiersin.org/