Sophia Liu, COL ’26, Cincinnati, OH

Most people spend their summers at the beach, maybe with sand between their toes. I spent mine with flies crawling up the sides of test tubes. Not the houseflies buzzing around your picnic, but …

Aksa Choudhry, COL ’26, Sicklerville, NJ

As a Health & Societies major with a concentration in Bioethics, I’ve always been drawn to the intersection of medicine, policy, and public health infrastructure. This summer, I had the opportunity to work as …

Szirina Ismail, COL ’26, Toronto, Canada

As an aspiring physician committed to global health, I was drawn to the Abdulmalik Lab for its focus on sickle cell disease: an illness that disproportionately impacts vulnerable communities in the Middle East, sub-Saharan …

Anne Liu, WH ‘ 26, Philadelphia, PA

This summer, I had the opportunity to work with elementary students in Philadelphia through a local education nonprofit. Many of my students came from underprivileged backgrounds with limited family or financial support for …

Marisy Nieto, Masters in Environmental Biology, 2026, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

At PennVet’s New Bolton Center campus, the Agricultural Systems and Microbial Genomics (ASMG) Laboratory is brewing up bacterial blends that could be used to help reduce methane emissions and improve …

Rachel Ou, COL ’26, Bridgewater, NJ

This summer, I worked in the Tsourkas Lab at the University of Pennsylvania on a project aimed at improving antibody-conjugated liposomes for targeted drug delivery. Antibody-functionalized liposomes are powerful tools because they can deliver …

Yana Sokivka, COL ’26, Bensalem, PA

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to work as a legal intern at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency dedicated to enforcing workplace anti-discrimination laws. The EEOC investigates charges …

Helen Zheng, WH ’27, Gulf Breeze, FL

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to intern at Fidelity Investments, under their SAI Funds department as a Data Strategy analyst where I expected to apply a plethora of my financial and …

Olivia DiRienzi, COL ’26, Philadelphia, PA

This summer, I had the opportunity to intern with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an experience that gave me valuable insight into the critical role this agency plays in enforcing federal anti-discrimination …

Kehinde Adeaga, COL ’26, Trenton, NJ

This summer has been an informative one career wise. As a rising senior, I have come to a point in time where I need to seriously think about what to do next. At the …