While at the university, Jaime was registered under the name Clarissa Whyte. She pretended to be a transfer student from Oxford University in England in order to do reconaissance on the university's premiere neuroscience research school. The school used the research of Professor Howard Samuels to produce prototypical neural implants designed to help patients with Parkinson's disease and other maladies. These implants attracted the attention of Berkut because they were being used against their purpose to force US soldiers in Iraq to act against their will.