Noah Landefeld U Houston Week 3
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. The QCM (which stands for quartz crystal microbalance and is […]
Hugh Hatcher LASP Week 4
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 procedures. We spent most of our time running tests […]
Sarah Belanger, Brown, Week 3
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 cultures, project planning, and research. I had fewer […]
Maya Santa Ana Rainbow Youth Center Week 3
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 see themselves in the future. We went […]
Seamus McParland-Daab, San Diego State University, Week #3
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, we found the top agar to be contaminated. The top agar being what is mixed with the […]
Adam Szigeti ASU/MIX Internship Week 3
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 were taught how to use the Timeline feature, learning how […]
Lachlan Barrett EGI Internship Week 3
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 the first day of the trip we arrived later in […]
Jacob Sharpe, Wu Lab HMS, Week 3
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 you to make graphs in so many different ways so […]
Kiera Iversen, Ting Wu Lab HMS, Week 3
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 for my time here, I can’t believe I’m halfway done! […]
Rider Abbott, Oklahoma State University, Week #3
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 to further refine a polish the foam […]