Shiloh Warthen – Immunology + Microbiology at Briney Lab, TSRI – Week 4
Welcome back! I’m Shiloh and this is week 4 at the Briney Lab at Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. Quick Refresher: the Briney Lab operates within the Immunology and Microbiology department at Scripps as a subsection of the Burton Laboratory. Its members work to analyze human immune responses to infectious diseases like HIV, […]
Kiera Iversen, Ting Wu Lab HMS, Week 4
Hi all, and Happy Independence Day!! It has truly been just another incredible week here in Boston at the Ting Wu Lab. This week, we started a new chapter of our internship. Using the knowledge that we have gained when it comes to imaging and analysis, along with many other fields of knowledge and experience, […]
Eli Ellison, APR Internship, Week #2
Hi everyone, My second week at APR is now complete, and I’ve been having a great time! This week was a short one, running only from Monday through Wednesday, and the office was pretty quiet with many people out. Despite that, I still had the chance to learn a lot and work on some really […]
Reign Icasiano, George Lab UCSD, Week 4
Hello and welcome back to my blog! Thank you so much for your willingness to keep up with my discoveries each week. This week, in particular, I’ve learned a great deal! The George Lab at UCSD has undoubtedly become an experience I will never forget, and I’m grateful to be working here! Mon. June 30, […]
CJ Horning LASP Internship Week 4
Hello, This marks my fourth week at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder, working alongside Dmitri Vorobiev. Throughout this week, Hugh and I have continued the fiber cutback experiment. Although we’ve been utilizing the same fiber over the past week, we suspected it had become fractured. Optical fibers are highly […]
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 […]