Hello, This marks my fourth week at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder, working alongside Dmitri Vorobiev. Throughout this week, Hugh and I have continued the fiber cutback experiment. Although we've been utilizing the same fiber over the past week, we...
I hope everyone is having as good of a summer as I am. This is the end of my third week at the University of Houston studying physical chemistry. This week I continued to work on creating the thin metal films using the thermal evaporator....
Hi everyone—my name is Hugh Hatcher, and this week at LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) in Boulder, Colorado, I continued working with Dmitry Vorobiev and the team on our UV fiber-optics experiment. Throughout the week, CJ and I stayed focused on the main experimental...
This week was all about growth and planning. Now that I’m past the adjustment phase, I’ve started working on more complex tasks, and with that came some challenges. For me, it’s been the most rewarding week yet. I spent much of this week focused on cell...
Hello everyone! Here comes our 3rd week working with the Rainbow Youth Center Monday 23rd Starting Monday, Kat and I worked on preparations for my Wednesday activity. The basic idea was for the youth to decorate a cookie representing how they see themselves or how they want to...
[caption id="attachment_24999" align="alignright" width="300"] Koi pond on campus[/caption] This week at the lab I was completely focused on isolating Lactobacillus. The process to create plaques was not working throughout the week, attempting to find the cause we looked through the procedure to find the cause. Eventually,...
This was my last week here at the MIX lab before heading back home and it was overall and amazing experience which I will forever be grateful for. On Monday the kids were given their last day of instruction with the Unity game engine, they...
Hello everybody! This week at EGI has been super fun and really interesting for me. This week I finally took the trip out to the Uinta basin and got to see the real field work that goes into the science I'm doing this summer. On...
This week in the lab was again fascinating to me. Early in the week, I worked on trying to depict my data on graphs made with code. Before this I would make graphs with Excel, and even Desmos, and this worked but coding graphs allows...
Hello all, welcome to week three of my internship at the Ting Wu Genetics Lab at Harvard Medical School! As the previous weeks, this week has followed in accordance and has been great! I’ve been truly learning so much and I am so incredibly grateful...
Welcome back everyone! I cant believe I'm already halfway through my internship! The weeks fly by so quickly when you're having as much fun as I am. This week was full of fun experiences and interesting experiments! At the start of this past week we had the opportunity...
Testing a 14 ft long tube kite tail (the one we will use for the actual flights will be 65ft long) Hi, I'm Ben Carpenter. I am interning with Oklahoma State University for aerospace engineering. This week has been exciting. The first few days I continued...
Hello and welcome/welcome back to my blog! I am Arianna and I am interning in public health with the Rodham Institute at Georgetown University. This past week was supposed to be my last week here, but thanks to my mentors and Sarah Holbrooke agreeing on...
Welcome back! I’m Shiloh and this is week 3 at the Briney Lab at Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. Quick Refresher: the Briney Lab operates within the Immunology and Microbiology department at Scripps as a subsection of the Burton Laboratory. Its members work...
Hi, my name is Vivian Trommer, and I am interning at Colorado School of Mines. I am working with Professor Petruska, two of his PhD students, and a master's student this summer. We are working on making a self-driving, electric race car using an RC...