Ashti Tiwari, COL ’27, Corning, NY
This summer in Philadelphia, I had the opportunity to work with Professor Julia Gray on her research on International Organizations (IOs) from the Ground Up: Understanding Global Cooperation through Data. With resources compiled from …
Kenji Kaproth, SEAS ’25, Kensington, MD
In the summer of 2024, supported by a Penn Career Services Summer Funding Grant, I conducted on-campus research on ALS.
Before coming to Penn, I already knew that I wanted to contribute to research …
Jonathan Pei, COL ’27, Wilmington, DE
This summer I had the opportunity to work with Professor Mingmin Zhao and PhD student Haowen Lai. I had started working in this lab in December of 2023 and this summer gave me …
Nathaniel Cronin, COL ’26, Akron, OH
This summer, I had the privilege of working at the Social Action Lab within the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania. The lab studies the impact of communication to understand …
Rachel Ou, COL ’26, Bridgewater, NJ
This summer, supported by Career Services, I had the privilege of working in the DumoLab, an interdisciplinary laboratory at the intersection of regenerative architecture, biology, materials science, and design.
One of the key projects, …
Lala Mustafa, COL ’26, Baku, Azerbaijan
This summer, I had the honor of continuing my research under Professor Julia Gray from the Political Science Department. This project – as part of Professor Gray’s forthcoming book on the vitality of international …
Caleb Yam, COL ’25, Queens, NY
This summer, I was fortunate enough to intern with Chinatown Youth Initiatives in New York City, as a Summer Program Director for their flagship program, the Summer Leadership Institute. Founded in 2000, Chinatown Youth …
Endy Huynh, NUR ’27, Atlanta, GA
In the Summer of 2024, I had the privilege of working with Take on College, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing accessible mentoring services to first-generation and low-income high school rising Seniors applying to …
Christian Stuit, SEAS ’27, Lochiel Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada
Since coming to Penn, I knew I wanted to start undergraduate research the summer after my freshman year. However, even after presentations and videos and scrolling through CURF’s research directory, I …
Joe Kojima, SEAS ’27, Tokyo, Japan
Having the opportunity to work over the summer at the Bio-Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, I found myself surrounded from beginning to end by innovative research. The lab had brain organoids, …
