Grace Dai, COL ’25, Winston-Salem, NC

Ever since learning that livestock agriculture contributes significantly to global warming, I’ve been curious about ways to reduce those emissions. Over my COVID gap year, I worked with Symbrosia, a biotechnology company growing red …

Linda Wu, COL & WH ’24, Annandale, VA

International field ecology research isn’t always well funded, especially when there aren’t professors at Penn working with the systems you want to study. The opportunities that do exist are often extremely competitive. …

Klarissa Diaz, COL ’26, Houston, TX

Over the summer, I worked in Sunny Shin’s Immunology Lab for the Microbiology Department in the Perelman School of Medicine. I began working in her lab in October when I first came to Penn …

Allaha Mohiby, COL ’25, Pomona, NY

This summer, I had the opportunity to work in the lab of Professor DeJonghe. I had an amazing experience working alongside postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tito Borner and lab technician Allison Pataro. The lab focuses …

Matthew Landell, COL ’23, Rosedale, NY/USA

This summer I was named a Breakthrough Fellow at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals on the Medical Excellence Team. As a fellow this summer, I completed the first component from Pfizer’s initiative to advance students of Black/African …

Anusha Keshireddy, SEAS ’23. Chesterfield, NJ

This summer I had the opportunity to continue my research at the Richardson Lab in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Perelman School of Medicine. I first joined the Richardson Lab in January of …

Hong Yu Liu, COL ’24, Broomall, PA

This summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to work in the Yang Lab which is part of Cancer Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine. The lab is interested in the role of …

Winston Peloso, COL’23, Princeton, NJ

This summer I sought to model charge transport in new materials using photoconductivity experiments. I fabricated measurement devices in the cleanroom, connected the devices to a multi-machine measurement setup, and used a lock-in amplifier to …

Hannah Kim, COL’25, Glastonbury, CT

Coming into Penn, the idea of research was still very vague to me. It had seemed like a keyword just thrown around, and I really had no idea what it entailed. So when near the …

Angelina Jala, COL’ 25, Philadelphia, PA

Over the summer, I had the privilege of being an Undergraduate Research Assistant in Dr. Yi-Wei Chang’s Lab within the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Utilizing the structural biology imaging technique, cryo-electron tomography, this …