[caption id="attachment_10253" align="alignleft" width="300"] A picture from when my host family and I went sailing on Wednesday night.[/caption] This was my fifth week here in Long Beach and it was definitely one of my favorite. On Monday, we took the boat out to find the receivers...
Welcome to week five of my Pinhead Internship blog! This week flew by, and I also anticipate the remaining two weeks of my time here in Los Angeles as well. All five days at work this week were spent on set on the main stage...
This week was our last week of doing real research on our protein systems. Which was both exciting and sad that it is all coming to an end. During this week I spent most of my time calculating free energy wells for each system of...
It's my second to last week here at the National WWII Museum and I've just had the most interesting discussion with Mr. Owen Glendening, Executive Director of Education & Access. Mr. Glendening has worked for over 30 years in Museum Studies. Now, truly not to...
For my Pinternship, I have been working in the communications branch of the Natural Resource Conservation Service. The NRCS is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture that provides subsidy funding to ranchers and farmers in California to help them modify their practices...
This week, we spent most of the time working out the kinks and errors that were possible reasons why HYDRA, the program that we are working on, wasn't giving us readouts. We fixed all of the errors as you saw last week, but when we...
This week, we been transferring and preparing more samples of graphene and annealing them to test them and follow with our comparisons of their results. Another thing we did is install a humidity sensor in the conductivity set up that we did. The process of install...
Week four was a lot of troubleshooting. Firstly, the 31st, we decided to head to the lab. Waiting for everything to set up, I observed another intern (who was much older than I) doing some other radio testing. Essentially, his computer was sending a modulation called...
Its my second week here and my projects are going really well. The experiment hasn't been able to take place yet because the monkey is still in training. This monkey is named Ham and he's a teenager and at the moment he's going through a...
This week in the lab we completed our task of ranking the 12 ligands in order from the lowest IC50 to the highest. We were able to accomplish this by using three analysis methods we chose. The methods included: free energy, secondary structure, and hydrogen...
My week in the Change Lab was really awesome! I started my week off by shadowing another undergraduate student that I had not worked with before. We started the day with plating a 24 hour for the OASIS study. To begin this process whole blood is...
Day 21: My last Sunday in St. Croix was one to remember, the day started out with a pancake breakfast with Stefán and Abbie in our apartment. After cleaning up, we got in the truck and headed out west on the island for a new...
[caption id="attachment_10160" align="alignleft" width="225"] Alexa and I getting ready for kayaking[/caption] Day twenty one we spent the last Sunday of our trip at Rainbow beach. The beach was about 20 minutes away so after that drive we were excited to jump in the waves. By courtesy...
I am Abbey Heide and I am in Gothic, Colorado, working with ten other students at the Rocky Mountain Biological Labs, learning about field biology and ecology. This week we were introduced to several different deviations from ecology. We started with zen ecology, doing more...
Welcome to week four of my internship blog! Overall, this was a slower week at Digital Domain, but things are about to get pretty crazy for the next few weeks as we begin a series of lengthy, comprehensive shoots! Nonetheless, I learned a great deal...