Lana Kenworthy – Chemical Biology at DNC, Scripps, Week 3
Welcome back! Week 3 has been so much fun! For those only now reading my blog, I have been interning at the Ye Lab within the Dorris Neuroscience Center at TSRI. I am assisting my mentor Cailynn Wang with her work on CATCH and mapping drug distribution in the brain (and other organs). So far […]
Noelle Roth, University of Houston, Week 3
Hello! Last week, I hoped to start samples by the end of this week, but I ended up working on a few other projects as well. This week ended up being pretty busy! Lab Work Although I didn’t get to test new samples with the Raman spectrometer, I worked on about three projects at once […]
Eli Ellison, APR Internship, Week #1
My first week interning at APR was awesome. APR is a performance engineering company that specializes in aftermarket tuning and upgrades for Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche vehicles. They develop high-performance software, hardware, and accessories to enhance speed, handling, and the overall driving experience. This week, I had the opportunity to spend time with several departments […]
CJ Horning LASP Internship Week 3
This week at LASP really felt much more independent. Since Hugh and I finished training, we have much better understanding of our projects. We continued work on our ongoing UV fiber cut-back experiment. This experiment is focused on understanding the UV light transfer through the fiber at different lengths and curvatures. This week we found […]
Hugh Hatcher LASP Week 3
Hi everyone—my name is Hugh Hatcher, and this week at LASP in Boulder, Colorado, I continued working with Dmitry Vorobiev and the rest of our fiber-optics team. Over the week, CJ and I handled the same core tasks in the UV-fiber transmission experiment. We prepped the fibers by cleaving them with the ruby knife […]
Lachlan Barrett EGI Internship Week 2
Hi Everyone! I had another extremely fun week at my internship In Salt Lake City. This week we looked at a bunch of slide samples of different types of sandstone under a microscope and learned all of the characteristics and components found in a typical sandstone. The sandstone is often filled with a colored resin […]
Maya Santa Ana Rainbow Youth Center Week 2
Hello everyone! Here is week 2 of working with the Rainbow Youth Center! (RYC) Monday 16th Monday was a relaxed day, and I made sure to read up on some psychology in textbooks I could find, as well as research on human behavior. Tuesday 17th Z, our outreach specialist, had brought me with him to […]
Noelle Roth, University of Houston, Week 2
Hi everyone! Last week, I was almost done with the laser plate and practiced aligning the cyan laser. This week, I became more comfortable using the miller and learned how to use the lathe. There’s a lot of work to do before using the Raman spectrometer, but it’s rewarding to build components of my equipment. […]
Arianna Galindo Roca, Rodham Institute, Week 2
Hi everybody! I am Arianna and I am interning in Public Health with the Rodham Institute at Georgetown University, DC, and this is the end of my second week here. Last Sunday after I posted my blog for the first week, I went to the MedStar Hospital Cardiology Unit with my mentor’s husband, Adrian, who […]
Seamus McParland-Daab, San Diego State University, Week #2
My second week at Rowher Lab has concluded. Starting the week off we had a lab meeting to set up the agenda, everyone getting there own project or continuing previous ones. I was given a couple different options, choosing to focus more on phage therapy and its application. The implications of my choice mean that […]
Vivian Trommer, Colorado School of Mines M3 Lab Internship, Week 2
Hi, my name is Vivian Trommer, and I am interning at Colorado School of Mines. I am working with Professor Petruska, two of his PhD students, and a master’s student this summer. We are working on making a self-driving, electric race car using an RC car (the Super Baja Rey 2.0). I am staying with […]
Jacob Sharpe Wu Lab HMS Week 2
My second week at the Ting Wu Lab in Boston consisted mostly of data analysis. It’s fun to take pictures on the microscope, but anyone can do that, the real science begins when you have to interpret the pictures. At first, this data analysis was tricky. I had to learn a brand new software, make […]