Azari Guerrero, Burton Lab at Scripps Research, Week 3
Hello everyone!! I’m Azari and I just finished week three at the Burton Lab at Scripps Research. Just a refresher, I’m working with Nate Beutler, a post-doctorate immunologist who, through antibody discovery and therapeutic design, is working to understand why an effective vaccine for malaria hasn’t been developed yet. This week I’ve slowly taken on […]
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 […]