Reign Icasiano, George Lab UCSD, Week 3
I can’t believe I’m already halfway through my internship! It’s honestly gone by so fast, and I’m excited to continue to learn what I can in the last half of my stay here at UCSD. I’m so thankful for all of the George Lab staff, as they’ve welcomed me thoroughly, and it feels as if […]
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. […]