Paige Sharp, Public Health with the Rodham Institute at Georgetown University, Week 1
This is my first week interning at the Rodham Institute affiliated with Georgetown University working in public health. Over the course of six weeks I will be doing various activities mostly related to the betterment of children’s health in the underserved communities of DC. I started my internship on Tuesday June 18th and I have […]
Siena Parr, Neuroscience, Scripps Research, (Week #1)
Hello Everyone! My name is Siena and this summer I am interning through Scripps Research in La Jolla, California for neuroscience. Specifically, I am interning at the Dorris Neuroscience Center under Cassandra White in the Jin Lab. While I am here I am staying and commuting with another Pinhead Intern (Katie Pumayalli) and we are […]
Katie Pumayalli, Neuroscience at Ye Lab, Scripps Research Institute (Week 1)
Hello, my name is Katherine(Katie) Pumayalli and I will spend six weeks interning at the Ye Lab at Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. I will be working with my amazing mentors Cailynn Wang and Zhengyuan (Ben) Pang. I started my mentorship on Monday, June 17th, and fell in love with the lab and all […]
Mikah Wareham – Outlaw Equine Hospital (Week 3)
My third week at Outlaw Equine consisted of working the night shifts, which I had never experienced at a job before. Since I was on the night shift for five days and was joined by only one other technician instead of the usual six during the day, I received much more practice giving treatments and […]
Garrett Shelley – MIX Center Week 2
The second week of my internship at the MIX Center in Mesa, AZ was a blast, but also exhausting. The week started somewhat slow, with introductions on Monday, and time for the kids to get used to us, and vice versa. We can’t let them really be alone, but our base of operations is on […]
Bjorn Cristol, Civil and Material Engineering, Week 2
I had tons of fun during the second week of my internship at the University of Utah. I continued work on some python code modeling different lattice structures as well as creating models of porous media and simulating the outcome of injecting supercritical CO2 into it. As for my coding, I wrote scripts for sampling […]
Jerry Sharpe, Computational Biology, Brown University (week 1)
I started my internship at the Center for Biology of Aging at Brown University, in Professor Nicola Neretti’s lab, this week. This lab studies everything about cellular senescence, or when a cell stops proliferating/dividing. Obviously there can be age related diseases with an accumulation of old senescent cells in the body, however I was pretty […]
Andrew Kistler, M3 Robotics Lab, Week 2
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 undergraduate students. This week we have been working hard to […]
Maddison Coca, Physical Chemistry at University of Houston, Week Two
Hello all! This is the end of my second week working in Professor Baldelli’s lab doing physical chemistry, having roughly three weeks left of this amazing opportunity. During my first week, I was learning the basics of taking contact angles of glass samples coated with Perfluorooctyl vapor (PFOTs). I experimented with two drops, three drops, […]
Kaylynn Quinonez, Marine Biology at Tybee Marine Science Center, Week 1
My names Kaylynn Quinonez and I’m spending my summer on Tybee Island, Georgia where I am studying marine biology at Tybee Marine Science Center. My mentor is Allison Williford and I am staying with Zelda and Sheldon Tenenbaum. I arrived Saturday morning and started first thing on Monday at 9:00 am. This week I spent […]
Patty Minnehan, Astrophysics at LASP, Week 2
My second week at LASP was exciting and eventful. This week consisted of more work on the fiber optic in an attempt to view UV light, working in the clean room, cleaning of other rocket parts, work on a black box to support another interns camera project, and finally my arrival in Japan. I am […]
Mikah Wareham – Outlaw Equine Hospital (Week 2)
My second week at Outlaw Equine was filled with more great experiences! This week consisted of extracting mucus stones from a horse with the strangles disease, changing bandages on abrasions, inserting a catheter into a horse with colic, and much more. This week also helped me realize how much more confident I have become in […]