Hello, my name is Katie Pumayalli and I just finished the fifth week of my six-week internship at the Ye Lab at Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. I have been working with my amazing mentors Cailynn Wang and Zhengyuan (Ben) Pang. I started...
Week 3 was focused on applying basic Python code to print output to the terminal. I employed Visual Studios to create the Python code that would print a simple message when the webhook was hit. Originally, this step should have been very straightforward. All I should...
This week has been intensive in terms of work and study. During the course of my second week at the neuromoph workshop in Telluride, CO, I have joined a project group that involves both game design and neuromorphic recordings from the brain. Here's the project: The...
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 I started working with anti-body staining. I took two poly di-lysine slides (sample sticks better if coated), segmented tissue, fixed and washed it as I had done with all my previous samples in the weeks earlier. Then I treated it with two 5...
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...