Corbin Whittington- Modeling the Keeling Curve- Week 1
Hello everyone, this is my first blog post detailing my internship with Andrei Ruckenstein, AKA Dr. Ruckenstein, a Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at Boston University. Last week I went up to Aspen, Colorado, to meet up with Dr. Ruckenstein, as before that we had only met on zoom. We met up […]
Week Two of C.A.D.D with UC Davis, Anna Bartschi
Hello everybody! Welcome back to my blog! I just finished my second week working with Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy to learn the inside work that goes into drug discovery. This week we started off by reviewing and discussing the results of our GALigandDock program. Rosetta is inherently random, so me and the other intern had completely different […]
Adriana Diaz: Aerospace Engineering Course – Week 5
For my last week here at LASP, I was given the job to build a plate to test a piece of equipment. The equipment to be tested is called PAM, though I can’t recall what it stands for, but I know it is a small satellite that needs to open up once it is launched […]
Logan Stephens, Dept of Chemistry at UH | Week 4
Hi, I’m Logan, and I’m from Telluride, Colorado. Over the past month, I’ve been attending an internship in the chemistry department at the University of Houston. This past week I finally got to do some more hands-on work regarding my project. The first thing I got to do this week was use the evaporator to […]
Francesca Schillaci: Rodham Institute, Week 3
Hello, As I finish my third week in D.C., I can safely say that I have finally acclimated to the humidity! It no longer bothers me! If you missed my last blog, I am an intern at the Rodham Institute housed within the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington D.C. […]
Jadin Scott, Rohwer Lab, Week 3
The beginning of my third week studying microbiology and coral reefs in the Rohwer lab at SDSU was very similar to the past weeks. On Monday, I again took photos of the CCA slides for the DOC experiment and then began reading Biology of Microorganism, a book referred to as “The Bible of Microbiology”. I […]
Cutler Connaughton, Astrophysics at CU – Week 3
Hi everyone! Cutler, here again, to share the latest news on my astrophysics internship at CU Boulder. For those who don’t know, I plan on running the largest telescope at the Sommers-Bausch Observatory at CU Boulder. This week was quite unorthodox, especially for the Pinhead Internship Programs, due to the fact that this week I […]
Chris Pohorecki – Week 5 – OSU Aerospace Engineering Internship
Hello again! My name is Christopher Pohorecki and this is a recap of my fifth week at my OSU Aerospace Engineering internship located in Stillwater Oklahoma! As you may know from my previous posts, our group has been tasked with creating a bi-copter capable of VTOL flight and horizontal flight. Our concept will then be […]
Didi EarthTree, Marine Biology at CMIL, Week 4
Didi EarthTree, Marine Biology at CMIL, Week 4 Hello, my name is Didi and my internship is at the CMIL Marine Biology lab. I am working with lobsters and microorganisms. This week I learned more about how to sort and measure fish, along with dissecting urchins. This week started out with an escaped lobster. Just […]
Lulu Pumayalli, Marine Biology at CMIL, Week 4
Hello again, my name is Lulu Pumayalli and I am interning at the Coastal Marine Institute Laboratory (CMIL) in San Diego, California. This week I was able to do a variety of things at the lab that made this week really great. I started off the week by grinding the dried Ulva Lactuca from the […]