Hello, my name is Yaphet, and I'm interning at UCSD in a program named ENLACE; this program is created to make high school students from Mexico and the US feel a college experience while getting out of their comfort zone doing internships in many STEM...
In my lab I am taking microscopic slides and turning them into thin films of silver (1 to 100 nm thick) using a evaporator to evenly distribute the silver onto the surface of the films. Then I will be measuring them with an ellipsometer to...
Quick recap, my name is Evan Strand and I'm interning at Scripps Research Institute researching the neuroscience of metabolism. This week felt both very repetitive and completely new. It started with a presentation for from Dr. Ya-chieh Hsu, a professor at Harvard University, talking about her...
Hello everyone, I’m Taylor Holmes. I’m a Pintern from Telluride, Colorado. I’m spending several weeks this summer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake, interning with the Department of Environmental Engineering and Energy and Geoscience. When I started working Monday, we went into “The...
My name is Olivia Hatcher, and I am studying biochemistry at UCSD this summer. My first week has been some what crazy between my wonderful host family and my internship. The first couple of days of my internship were filled with paper work and safety...
I began the week brainstorming personal projects that I would work on in my spare time. I was tasked with doing the entire process from scratch and using physical objects and my mentors as resources. I had decided to make a fidget that would go...
Hey, my name is Owen Doyle and I am interning at an architectural engineering firm in Durango CO, called ME&E. I have been doing a bunch of Mechanical engineering in the first two weeks but last week I got to learn more about the electrical...
Hey, my name is Canyon, and I'm interning at the Scripps Research Institute. I intern within the chemistry department thats pioneering new reactions to create more efficient techniques on making certain molecules. More specifically, my lab, lead by Keary Engle, focuses on organic chemistry that...
Hey, Beck here with a week 2 update from UC Santa Barbara. This week was mostly spent identifying and labeling clams in reef photos as data for the project. This data will help determine where and how these clams and what they eat affect the...
Hello all, my name is Jennifer Gutierrez. My second week at the U began with a brief introduction to Python from my advisor (Ting Xiou's) husband. He provided our small group of interns with a link to an in-depth free trial with many videos to...
Hi, I'm Karis Varner and this is week two of my internship in San Diego. Monday was an interesting start, the morning started out of a presentation about inter-organ neural circuit for appetite suppression it was a very interesting presentation. The paper report lacked some...
This week, I continued my work on the NASA-Lunar Outpost project. I also started on a new project of fitting LiDAR cameras to Jackal robots, which will be pictured at the end of the blog. Outside of work, I didn't find much time to get...
Hi, I just finished my second week here at the Frazier Institute in Louisville, Kentucky! This week I was able to learn about so many new things, from the research aspects to the clinical aspects of spinal cord neurorecovery. I was allowed to strap into...
Hi, I'm Alise Hardie, an intern working with Dr.Petruska. This past week has been more project focused. I've been working mainly with Austin working on coding in python. It has been really interesting finding different ways to code the project and seeing it run and...
I am Graham Soukup and i am spending my summer in Boulder Colorado at the Center for AstroPhysics and Space Astronomy, CASA builds ultra voilet instruments to be sent up into space to record ultra voilet light emitted from our universe. In Order to capture...
