Monday: I continued my work with the cocaine rats and was given a few more responsibilities, including flushing and priming. Because a few of the rats have died due to illnesses, we have been taking extra precautions to eliminate possible threats, one being flushing, which...
I'm done! The sixth and final week of my internship has been devoted mostly to working on my own game and working with the staff in the Fab Lab to use the 3D printers and work on a project I've wanted to do for years. Starting on...
After an eventful three-week break back home working, I have returned to resume my astrophysics internship with LASP at CU Boulder. Starting off, the first thing my mentor said was, "Let's go light things on fire." He and some other undergraduate students were working on...
After a break where I was able to visit my family and celebrate the Fourth of July with my friends I have returned to Boulder for the remainder of my internship. I went back to work on Monday and worked through Friday. This week I...
Week three is already over! This week is the half way point in my summer internship in Kentucky. I have learned so much! I am really excited to see what new opportunities there will be in the next three weeks. This week was awesome for...
This week was very wonderful. I started writing up a paper on data collected using the permeameter I built which is going to be a nice way to wrap up this internship. On top of that, I did a lot of work on the code...
This was my fourth week interning at the Rodham Institute in public health with Georgetown University. I had the opportunity to intern with Senator Paul Strauss and his law office this week. It was great to see how a law office ran, and be able...
Hello, welcome back to my blog! If you haven't been following along, my name is Siena Parr and I have just finished my fourth week interning through Scripps Research at the Dorris Neuroscience Center. Last week was a short week due to the holiday but...
Hello! If you're new here, my name is Samantha Abate and I'm interning at UC Santa Barbara for Marine Biology. Last week was a bit slow, but this week, we were able to get a start on what we will be working on throughout our...
Hi everyone, this week was full of clams and field trips that i cant wait to share! On Monday my roommate Sam and I had the day off so we watched a lot of shark documentaries. That night I fried up some marinated tofu and that...
Hello everyone, my name is Andrew Kistler, and I am spending my summer in Golden Colorado at Colorado School of Mines. For the next seven weeks, I will be working in the M3 Robotics lab with Dr. Andrew Petruska as well as some graduate and...
This week in Lab we moved on to substrate scopes for our project. This means that we will try all types of different substrates in our reaction to try and find the most efficient one that gives us the best yield. We started on Monday...
Hello, my name is Ian Snapp, and this is the fourth week of my neuroscience internship at the Scripps DNC. To recap, I am working under the Ye lab, studying metabolism within the nervous system. This research requires a focus on an incredibly minute scale,...
Hello and welcome to my last two week in Tybee Island. These weeks I spent lots more time on sea camp and in the gallery. On week 3 we had 19 students and on week 4 we had only 7. As well I also spent...
Hello! My name is Katie Pumayalli, and I've just wrapped up the third week of my six-week internship at the Ye Lab at the Scripps Institution in San Diego, California. Can't believe I'm already halfway through! I'm working under the guidance of the amazing Cailynn...