Lexie Gardner: Environmental Engineering Final Week
My last week in Salt Lake City was pretty mellow as we were primarily just wrapping up all of our projects. Monday was centered around working on the video. We went up to the roof of the Student Union and filmed the vent and the surrounding area. We also got some footage of setting up […]
Elizabeth Mueller: Historical Studies, Week Four
This week I continued interviewing heads of each department with Ms. Abbie Edens, then Ms. Erin Clancey. The one I’d particularly like to tell you about was Ms. Clancey’s. She is head of collections which encompasses restoration of macro-artifacts (think Sherman Tank), the forming of exhibits (which artifacts are placed, source checking, description writing), digitization […]
Emmanuel Ledesma: Chemistry, Week Five
This week in lab, the fun had began as we started to do research for the lab. The first half of my internship, I had been learning the fundamentals and different analysis methods used to analyze proteins. Our task now was to find new methods to predict the rank order of the ligands by their […]
Jess Pack, Psychology and Neuroscience: Week 3
My third week in the Change lab has been amazing, and I learned a lot! My week started off pretty standard. I finished extra data entry from last week and worked with the days FORCE participants. After learning that I passed my biosaftey training course I got to work in the wet lab for the […]
Wynton Brown: Addiction Research at TSRI, La Jolla Week Six
Our final week at the lab was rather slow, there wasn’t much to do as the animals recovered from their surgeries. Unfortunately, the experiments with the new cohort of animals will start Monday, right after Ry and I leave. However, we still found things to do. Given the large numbers of animals that were dissected […]
Alexa Yanosky; Plastic Surgery St. Croix Week Three
Day 14: Our third week started off with a one of kind experience from Big Beard’s Adventure Tour company for a snorkeling day at Buck Island National Monument. The island was made a National Monument in 1961 by John F. Kennedy along with the reef around the island all being protected by the U.S park […]
Abigail Link: St. Croix Plastic Surgery Week Three
Day fourteen we got up by 7:30 to be ready to go on a sailing adventure out to Buck island. Buck island is a National Park by way of President John F. Kennedy who loved the island. About two-thirds of the island is surrounded by an elkhorn coral barrier reef. Alexa, Dr. Moorman, Stephan, and […]
Spencer Keating: Environmental Engineering, Final Week
For the final week of my internship, we were allowed time to wrap of our work and package the work of our entire internship. We were tasked with making a video that explains the work we did at the university. This was a great way to creatively present the work we did throughout the six weeks. On […]
Ellie Bulson: Spinal Cord Injury Research, Week 6
It is absolutely unbelievable that my internship is already over. These past six weeks have been filled with absolutely amazing people, opportunities, and experiences and I would not change a thing. As for my last week, our main goal was to cram as much in as possible so could get the chance to experience as […]
Caitlyn Littlejohn, Forensic Entomolgy, Week Two
This was my last week here at the Appleton Whittel Research Ranch and I’m sad to go but thankful for the experience I got to have during my short time here. My week was continuing my experiment with the mice carcasses. The experiment went well and my conclusion proved my hypothesis that the mice carcass […]
Noah Rainer: Spinal Cord Research, Final Week
I’m sad to say this is my last week at Frazier Rehab, everyone here is so kind and I’m really going to miss my time here. I really enjoy my time on the 9th floor, everyone is goodhearted and never discourage me from trying to learn how to do something and even better I appreciate […]
Ry Gould Week 6 (Last Week)
Finishing my last week at the George Lab has been both exciting and melancholy. I am excited to get back to Colorado and see friends and family again, but I will also definitely miss my fellow lab members and San Diego. I have learned a lot about how behavioral research with animals works, and more […]