Elizabeth Mueller: Historical Studies, Week Five
My last week at the museum was bittersweet. It was wonderful working with Erica Jensen and getting to see what a semi-corporate workplace is like. Then, reflecting on all the things I learned, I spent time in almost every facet of the museum. Every department connected to one outside the bubble of Museum Studies ranging […]
Nathalie Valenzuela: Neural basis of Social behavior, week 4
My last week I’m Tucson went by too fast! In the lab I finished another stimulus set that they hope to show Ham soon once he starts cooperating. Eggo underwent more training and he did very well. I left the lab with them having a good experiment started and one that will hopefully take place […]
Ben Lafferty: Computer Science at Rover.com, Week 2
Hello again! Welcome to my second and last Pinhead blog. As I stated in my earlier blog, I was only with Rover for 2 weeks, but in that amount of time I learned an immense amount. Since rover works in 2 week sprints, I got to see the beginning and end of the sprint which […]
Nathalie Valenzuela: Neural basis of Social behavior, week 3
This week was a very exciting one for the lab. While my project was extended to more videos, tests were being conducted on a monkey named eggo. This paticular experiment invoked touch and it was the 2nd that neurological analysis of two different sections of the brain were simultaneous looked at. Even though I couldn’t […]
Jaden Evans: Virtual Production, Week Six
Welcome to week six of my Pinhead Internship blog! This week was spent preparing for, and shooting one of two upcoming projects that Digital Domain will be working on. As well as learning more about the technical side of preparing for these shoots, I learned a lot about the logistics and business side of coordinating […]
Anna Wright- USDA NRCS Week Two/Final Week
My second and final week as an intern for the NRCS, Natural Resource Conservation Service, went by all too quickly. While the air quality in Davis was not ideal, about the equivalent of chain smoking cigars while standing outside, I had a wonderful, worthwhile week. Monday was a relatively standard day at the office, curating […]
Finn Doherty: Shark Lab, Week Six
This was my final week here in Long Beach and it flew by. In the lab, I continued to help an undergraduate with her jaws project. The shark lab received approximately 6,000 jaws that were confiscated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife. We have been working on measuring them and identifying the species of some of […]
Emmanuel Ledesma: Chemistry, Week Seven
I cannot believe this was my last week in the lab and I am sad to see it all come to an end. This week we primarily focused on making our posters to present on our last day. We were to make three posters per group and each poster included the analysis method used to […]
Miguel Ambriz Aerospace Engineering Week Five
Week five had a major success, but we won’t actually be able to utilize the success because all of our equipment is still gone. Hydra now has no more errors and continues to run its commands and scripts without error. The script themselves were where the faults could be found. Contrary to what we thought, […]
Carlos Rodriguez: Investigation and application of the Physical doping mechanisms on single layer graphene, last week.
This week, the last week, my mentor had to make a trip, so I been practicing my presentation with my lab parter. Then I went to the beach for the last time with some friends. I went to the closing ceremony to present, and I received my recognition of the program. I am so happy […]
Jess Pack; Psychology and Neuroscience, Week five (final)
I had an amazing last week in Boulder both in and out of the lab! To start off the week I got to observe DNA extraction for the first time which was really cool! The Change Lab is currently waiting on more of their typical red blood cell lysis, so we were testing different brands […]
Abbey Heide Week Two-Field Biology
My second and last week in Gothic was spent conducting experiments individually or in pairs. Our brainstorming period happened to be a day hike up a nearby mountain, stopping occasionally to look at and learn about research going on in the area. I then had three days with my partner to collect and analyze data […]