Laila Skramstad Week 6: Rodham Institute at George Washington University
Hello Everyone! It feels surreal to say that I have finished the last week of my Pinhead internship at the Rodham Institute. The past six weeks have been transformational and I have learned so much about medicine and public health, Washington D.C., who I am and what I want to pursue in the future. I […]
Tybee Marine Science Center Week 5 Kamryn Corzine
This week at the Marine Science Center here on Tybee was very exciting!!! I got to teach some of the modules to the kids at the sea camp!! I did it mostly without the help of the other educators, except for a few times when I would look to one of them for help. I […]
Ethan Barnes: Game Dev, Week 5
Hi! It’s me! Ethan! This is my blog, I’m going to talk about the last week. So, during my internship, I learned about hardware stuff. Not like timber but like memory, CPU, GPU, storage, etc. Did ya’ know there used to be a PCI-E card for processing physics and stuff? Like, you would have a […]
Mercedes Martinez – Forensic Entomology – “Give It A Whorl!”
7/15/19 – Luckily for me, I was able to put my newfound forensic entomology knowledge to the test in an actual crime scene! Uhh…sort of. Cristina put together four pretend crime scenes so that I could get a small taste of what forensic entomologists do on the scene of a crime. I […]
Trey Schwerdtfeger: Naval Architecture, Week three
Wow. I have already spent three weeks in Mystic. Time has just flown by. I would like to shout out a quick “thank you” to Sarah Holbrooke for making all of this possible, as well as Elysa Engelman for all of the help that she has given me. Getting to spend time doing something so […]
Lucy Wesson: Communication and Learning Lab at the University of Chicago, Week 2
Week Two at the Communication and Learning Lab The week was a lovely introduction to what life in academia is truly like. While my daily endeavors tend to feel slow in the moment, time itself is seemingly escaping me. I can not believe I am reaching the end of week two! On my first day […]
Georgia Pieper Week 6: HIMB Coral Study
Hello again! I have spent my last week on Coconut island doing a variety of projects to help out other visiting researchers. During the beginning of the week, Miranda and I helped out a woman named Julie Zill who is doing her PhD research at HIMB. At the moment she is setting up an behavioral […]
Carter Andrew: Conservation Metrics: Week Four
Monday: After spending another beautiful weekend in Santa Cruz skateboarding, surfing, and exploring the city I was ready to get back to work. I had a meeting with Jeff(My supervisor) about my next project. The last few weeks I have been developing and testing a segment of c++ code that pulls essential data out of […]
Kira Galbraith Week 4: Forest Park Animal Hospital
Week four of my internship was my vacation week. Dr. Baker went to Alaska to drop off Taco–the cat we were boarding while the owners moved. Dr. Favolaro was dropping his son off at college. Rhonda the manager told me on Monday that I should take the rest of the week off because both doctors […]
Jonah Jodlowski Week 2: Marine Biology
Hello, hello, and good day fellow super nerds. This week was my second week working at the Marine Science Research Building in Santa Barbara, California. I could go off on this blog about how I had to suck up urchin feces with a large straw but I will save you the stomach juices. Misleadingly, it […]
Caroline Lucarelli: Cartilage Research/Equine Surgery: Week 5
The fifth week of my internship was a very busy one. The clinic wasn’t as busy as usual, but there was a lot of work to be done regarding the research I am doing. On Monday, I was able to observe a bilateral ovariectomy of a mare with behavioral issues. In hopes of correcting these […]
Elena Scheibler: Spinal Cord Research, week 5
This has been my 5thweek in Louisville! I started the week with attending a multitude of different therapy sessions with another intern. We saw a patient get stimulation on their legs while we played with a volleyball, catapults, and nerf guns in order to work on the patient’s trunk control. Another patient was getting therapy […]