Melaina Yender, Neuroscience and Click Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute (Week Six)
Hello everyone! I am Melaina Yender and this is my sixth and final week researching neuroscience and click chemistry at the Ye Lab at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. This has been such an incredible experience and I have taken away an immense amount of knowledge. I am very honored to have […]
Natalie Lopez Ramirez, Metabolism at the Ye Lab, Week 6
Hi everyone, I am Natalie Lopez Ramirez, and this is my last week of studying metabolism at the Ye Lab at Scripps. The six weeks I’ve spent here have flown by! I can’t believe it’s already over. I didn’t go into the lab on Monday. Instead, I went fishing! Our lab had its summer outing […]
Cheska Hrupcin, Entomology Research with the Brosi Lab at RMBL, Week 4
Hi all! So crazy that I only have one week left of this fantastic internship! This week did have some unfortunate bumps in the road but, it was still so great! My mentor (Chris) could not work with us this week so, I got to work with the QNEST team. We spent most days out […]
Hello! I hope everyone is well. This week was pretty uneventful as far as the samples are concerned. They got weighed, watered, and counted as usual. One new thing I witnessed was the use of an autoclave, or a machine that sterilizes materials using high-pressured steam. The lab is required to autoclave old growths before […]
Natalie Trask, Spinal Cord Injury Research at the Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville Kentucky, Week Six
Hi everybody! This is the sixth and final week of my internship at the Frazier Rehab Institute. This experience has been so amazing. Not only did I gain new information about the spinal cord, I also grew as a person. I feel much more prepared to go to college next year, and I obtained a […]
Aubrielle Weaver, Microbiology at San Diego State University, Week 5
I am Aubrielle Weaver, spending my summer in San Diego, California, at San Diego State University (SDSU). For six weeks I have been studying microbiology. My mentor is Gregory Burkeen, who is a Ph.D. student at SDSU. This is week 5 of my internship. I encourage you to read my previous blogs in order to […]
Tahlia Trevino, Marine Biology Research at Marine Science Institute (University of California Santa Barbara), Week 5
Hi everyone, my name is Tahlia Trevino, and this is the 5th week of my internship at the Miller Lab at UCSB. Just for a refresher, I am interning for marine biology at the lab, and I work on several different projects, getting to learn about the aspects of being a marine biologist. Monday, July […]
Giada Amundson, Organic Chemistry at Scripps Research Institute, Week 6
Hello everyone! My name is Giada Amundson and I am doing organic chemistry at Scripps. I have been here for 6 weeks. Only 1 week left! I am gonna miss all of the amazing people I have met here! Monday, July 17 I started today by taking our product from Friday and started running a […]
Ashlee Petranovich- Clinical and School Psychology Internship (Murray State University) Week Seven; My Final Week!
Hello everyone! I hope that my blog post finds you well. My name is Ashlee Petranovich and I am currently in Murray, Kentucky attending Murray State University. While I am here on my internship I will be collaborating with four different programs that are focused on mental health, school safety, school psychology, and psychological assessments. […]
Loudon Doemland, Astrophysics(CU Boulder), Week 6
Hello everyone! It is sad to see that my time is coming to an end at the Astrophysics lab in CU Boulder. All of my co-workers are such amazing people and it is hard saying goodbye. They want to see me succeed and they have provided me with many resources to help me decide what […]
Kiara Warren, Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Week 3
Hello everyone! This was my last week with the Neuromorphs and we left it on a great note. I once again spent my mornings at their in-depth lectures and in the afternoons I got more involved with a project in the Auditory-Motor Coupling group. Since this was also the last week of the workshop, I […]
Cheska Hrupcin, Entomology Research with the Brosi Lab at RMBL(Crested Butte), Week 3
Hello again! It has been another great week in Crested Butte working with the Brosi lab! This week was jam-packed with long, hot, days working in the field. Three of them were spent working on our usual procedure of setting up cameras, bags, and our tent. The “thunderdome” is used to increase pollination events by […]