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, …
Nasir Nuriddin, COL ’25, Philadelphia, PA
This summer, I had the privilege of working with the Franklin Institute as part of their STEM Scholars Program. This program is dedicated to a select group of Philadelphia-area students in grades 9 through …
Simone Schriger, Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA
This summer, I traveled to Gaborone, Botswana to complete a summer research internship based at the Multidisciplinary Tumor (MDT) Clinic at Princess Marina Hospital. This clinic – developed through the Botswana-UPenn …
Asmus Nielsen, COL ’27, Aalborg, Denmark
It’s amazing how much you can learn from something you can’t even see with the naked eye. I’m incredibly grateful to the 2024 Career Services Summer Funding Grant for allowing me to dive into …
Gabrielle Cayo, COL ’27, Brooklyn, NY
After my freshman year at Penn and plenty of amazing courses, especially in the Urban Studies department, I hoped to spend my summer figuring out what career path I wanted to follow post-Penn. I …
Ebunoluwa Akadiri, COL ’25, Midlothian, VA
This summer, I received the wonderful opportunity to continue my independent research project started under the College House Fellowship Program (CHRF). My project, titled “Black Americans & Linguistic Discrimination in Health Care,” focuses on …
Benjamin Nachod, SEAS ’26, Clarksburg, MD
This year I had the opportunity to spend the summer with the Mitchell Lab to continue work on several projects I’ve been involved with during the academic year and jump into a couple new …
