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...
Day seven we got in the truck and traveled with Stephan and Dr. Moorman around the island. We drove on the east side of the island and saw the old plantation sites there. This side of the island has a few abandoned resorts since the...
this week we continue with the process of preparing graphene samples to test them. This time we apply silicon dioxide around the samples. We use this dioxide to isolate our graphene sample from the environment. [caption id="attachment_9757" align="alignnone" width="300"] Graphene samples in the oven[/caption] We did this...
I can't believe I only have one week left here in Salt Lake City! While I will definitely not miss the heat, it will be hard to leave the work I am doing and all the amazing people I have met. This week ended up...
This week in the lab we continued working with two more analyses to run on our Hsp90 systems. These will be the last analyses that our mentors will teach us. The main purpose of all of these analyses we have learned are to see if...
I had a really fabulous week here at Tybee Island. I assisted a lot with Sea Camp this week at the Science Center and I think the kids had a lot of fun. We taught them to cast net, and it was when McKenna and...
The second week of my internship at the CU Change Lab in Boulder was just as exciting as the first! I began my week at the Wardenburg health clinic on the CU campus. This is were the second of the two follow up appointments for the...
The second week we switched gears with what we were coding. This time we were adding the code for the sensors to make sure that the satellite will as a whole function properly and distribute the power evenly. This time we had to add code...
I cannot believe I only have one week of my internship left. To start the fifth week we continued trials of our CO2 bucket experiment. For the set of trails this week we used a trash can with the bottom removed instead of a five-gallon...
Our second week here was filled with many more specific tasks to take on. We were given a more in-depth look of Hydra, its functions and correlation with the XML coding that we are editing. We have also begun to create new additional functions to...