HII!! This week was such an amazing experience and full of learning opportunities! I started off by learning about breast cancer, colon cancer, and cervical cancer—how they’re different from each other, the types of screenings used to detect them, and the treatments available. One of...
Hello everyone! This week was pretty uneventful compared to my other weeks of internship as I got sick after the fourth of July and spent the majority of my week in my apartment, however I was still able to get some work done on the...
Wrapping up my fifth week at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder, with Hugh, I’ve encountered a blend of successes and unexpected hurdles. This week, our focus remained on the fiber project, although not without some hiccups. Our turbo pump,...
This week I most worked on my personal project which was mostly trouble shooting issue I ran into. Starting the week off I was waiting for a couple of materials. On arrival I realized that the MRS was not the right formula I needed. The...
Hello Everyone Welcome to Week 5’s post This week was extremely slow at the Rainbow Youth Center, but my executive director lent me a whole box of workbooks. These consisted of books to improve Social skills in children As they were cut into four chapters,...
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...
Hello everyone, on week 2 of my internship, I was in the oncology department following Dr. Pyuen, Dr. Benner, and their vet techs. First day started off slow because there were only a few clients. They started off by teaching me how they did blood...
Hi everyone, to recap my name is Maiya Wagner, and I feel so blessed to be given the opportunity to work in San Diego interning at the Scripps Research Institute. I am working at the Engle lab, which works with catalysis, and is run by...
Time has truly flown. I am soon entering my last and final week here in sunny California, and to say I’ve learned so much is an understatement. Even now, as I am nearing the end, I am still learning so much from the George Lab...
This week in the lab, I spent most of my time working on my project. I’m preparing to give a presentation to the lab on my research on telomeres, so much of my focus was on coding for data analysis. I’ve really enjoyed the coding...
Hi everyone—my name is Hugh Hatcher. This week at LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) in Boulder, Colorado, I continued collaborating with Dmitry Vorobiev and the rest of the team on our ongoing UV fiber-optics project. This week I was getting back into the...
It’s now been a full week of being here at my second internship and it so far has been amazing experience! On Sunday me and my dad drove down to small town just out side of Price in Utah where we met my host family...
It’s hard to believe there’s only one week left in my internship. Week 5 was all about tying threads together, both in the work I’ve been doing and in what I’ve learned so far. This week, I focused on finishing up bits of my code...
Hi everyone! This is the first week of my internship at RMBL, an amazing field research station located in the small town of Gothic, just outside of Crested Butte, CO. This is truly such an incredible opportunity I have been given, and I can’t wait...
Welcome back, everybody. I’m Azari, and I just completed my fifth week at Scripps Research. Just a refresher, I’m working with Nate Beutler, a post-doctoral immunologist who, through antibody discovery and therapeutic design, is working to understand why an effective vaccine for malaria hasn’t been...
