Philip Brooks, Addiction Neuroscience, George Lab UCSD, Week 5
Monday: I continued to help prepare the cages for the cocaine rats and was lucky enough to see the data collected so far on the rats. I was surprised to find a significant difference in the frequency of self-administration between male and female rats, with females consuming higher levels of cocaine. After looking at the […]
Emma Galleger- Marine Biology at UCSB- Week 3
Hi everyone, I just completed my third week here in Santa Barbara and it has been amazing! On Monday, Sam and I spent the day working on ViQi and continued to identify clams. This day we found other interesting creatures like this funny fish giving us the side eye. After work we went to the […]
Samantha Abate – Marine Biology at UCSB, Week 3
Hello and welcome! If you’re new here, my name is Samantha Abate and I’m currently in Santa Barbara, California interning at UCSB for marine biology. This week was very fun! My fellow intern (Emma Galleger) and I attended some cool labs and started on a new project. Monday was mostly just a work day. We […]
Catcher Latta, Frazier Rehabilitation Institute, NeuroRecovery, Week 4
It is a bizarre feeling to think my first day in Kentucky was only a month ago. This week was the end of my fourth week in Kentucky and it has been an amazing expicence! This week was packed full of life long memories and learning a bunch of new skills. the mojority of Monday […]
Lucas Meridith, Neuromorph Workshop, Week 3
This week was my final week at the Neuromorph Workshop in Telluride, CO. This week wasn’t as lecture heavy as it was work heavy in terms of projects that me and my team needed to finish. One of the projects that I have been primarily working on throughout the course of the workshop is a […]
Andrew Kistler, M3 Robotics Lab, Week 7
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. I can’t believe this was my final week. […]
Luka Remec-Organic Chemistry-Engle Lab-Week 5
In the lab this week we started with continuing our substrate scope to find the most effective compound in our reactions. On Monday we ran three more heat plate reactions. These reactions take around 3 hours to complete, two hours for on the plate and about an hour weighing the reactants out and generally setting […]
Ian Snapp: San Diego, California | Neuroscience at the Scripp’s DNC | Week 5
Hello, my name is Ian Snapp, and this is the fifth week of my neuroscience internship at the Scripps DNC. To recap, I am working under the Ye lab, studying metabolism within the nervous system. This research requires a focus on an incredibly minute scale, involving molecular biology and biochemistry manipulating DNA to change metabolic […]
Bjorn Cristol, Civil and Material Engineering at The University of Utah, Week 7
This was the final week of my internship and I was able to wrap everything up quite nicely. I finished writing up a paper about our findings with permeability as well as finishing up a coding project about the Gutenberg – Richter relationship. Working alongside Luca and Sophia, the other high school interns, has been […]
Siena Parr, Neuroscience, Scripps Research (Week #5)
Hello everyone, I just completed my second to last week interning in the Jin Lab at Scripps Research in neuroscience. This week has gone by unbelievably fast and I can’t believe I’m almost done. It’s hard to believe that by this time next week, I’ll be on my way home. There wasn’t much to do […]