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 […]
Andrew Winkelmann: Environmental Engineering, Week 4
Well, it’s been four weeks since I started my internship here at the University of Utah. Time really flies by. This week, Sean and I did a lot of work on the communication aspect in the network. We created temporary cardboard compartments for the sensors and then spread them out across the campus. We tested […]
Josh Ives, Computational Biology at CMU, Week 2
Hello everyone, I just finished up my second week studying computational biology at CMU. This week was an exceptional one and I’m really excited to tell you all about the awesome things I got to do. This week was mostly split between time in the microbiology lab, time in the computer lab and free time, […]
Clara Carrasco: Aerospace Engineering, Week 3
I hereby dub this week one of our most productive weeks! Caroline and I finished the work assigned to us by Andrew. When he came back from Guatemala, we discussed what exactly I should do for Maxwell. He figured out that the CuE3 TVAC mounting plate can be used for Maxwell. However, a unique plate […]
Jay Alcazar: University of California San Diego: Week 3
Welcome back! This week was a really busy week in the lab. We helped with the GWAS experiments in the mornings as per usual and then we started on to other things. Another lab member is starting a project on alcohol self-administration so I helped reassemble the rats chambers for that on Monday and Tuesday. […]
Danika Petit: Week 3- Euthanizing and Surgeries
Week 3 everyone, This week has been captivating and full of new experiences! To start off the week, we began dissections on a cohort of rats that have completed their scientific mission and have now passed onto a wonderful rat heaven. What’s fascinating about the rat is that it’s 97% genetically similar to us, which […]