This week was my last week of my internship and I spent it in Alamosa helping with research for the winds and temperatures at various sites. The week was very fun and I can't thank Dr. Jamey Jacob and The Pinhead Institute enough for giving...
Hey everyone my name is Nathalie Valenzuela and I attend Ouray High school. I'll be here in arizona for four weeks. This is my first week here in Tucson where I am studying at the University of Arizona in the labs at the College of...
This was a fun week at the WWII Museum, let me tell you. The first big thing I got to do this week was interview Mr. Martin Loicano, Executive Director of Education and Access. I got to talk to him on his everyday job and...
This week, we performed vibrational testing on MinXSS-2, followed by a communications test. After that, we ran through troubleshooting for an anomaly that had come up in a routine performance test; fortunately, the error was a broken cord in the hardware used for testing. On Friday,...
This week was the turning point of my internship at UCSD where we changed from just learning how to do different analysis methods on our training proteins to creating our own analysis methods to use on the test set of systems with the tools that...
Monday I worked primarily on beginning my methods and procedures portion for the paperthat will hopefully be published by the end of the eighteen month experiment. I also finished placing the coral nubbins in the rack for the flow experiment. This was by far my...
Welcome to my week three blog! This week was full of new projects, new people, and new places! The week began with a slow day at Digital Domain, where things were quiet as people in the MoCap department either continued on their work of "tracking" data...
This week has flown by. On Monday and Tuesday I continued to work on the Giant Sea Bass project. One of the graduates is using the round stingrays for her research to learn how the rays are affected by changes is temperature, which could help...
Hello! This was my fifth week at Frazier Rehab and it was a great week! I have met so many great people here and all my coworkers are fabulous people who are all absolutely brilliant. I feel like a sponge here, i'm learning so much...
I cannot believe that my time here at the Rodham Institute is over, these past six weeks have flown by and I am sad to leave DC. My last week here was super busy as I spent the majority of the week with kids who...
This past week at the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center has been extremely fun and interesting! Monday was the slowest day as we spent most of the day creating the script for our upcoming experiments. This means that we were creating a sort of...
I started out my first week at the Appleton Whittle Research Ranch in Arizona. My first few days here I spent settling in and reading and researching scientific papers on how decomposition works and how some scientists ran experiments to figure out what insects are...
This week was a busy week for most of our lab, but a slow week for the interns. Dissections of one cohort of rats took up Monday, and we were able to watch the procedure of sacrificing them and the whole dissection process. The rest...
Day 7: The second day of the weekend turned into a light hike with snorkeling in the Jack and Isaac Bay (featured picture above). The Sunday was spent with Stefán and Abbie with relaxing in the sand and cracking jokes with Dr. Moorman. We drove...
It was a big week for the lab, and almost everybody was super busy all week. The arrival of the mew GWAS cohort meant surgeries all week. The surgeries were to insert catheters in the rats, allowing for drugs to be administered intravenously. The way...