Daniel Huynh, NUR ’23, Portland, Oregon
This summer, I had the opportunity to complete a 9-week Nursing Externship on the Solid Organ Transplant Floor at NYU Lagone Health’s Kimmel Pavillion. This floor focused on patients mainly receiving kidney and liver …
Sophie Ouyang, NUR’23, New Hyde Park, NY
This summer I had the opportunity to work as a student nurse intern on a telemetry unit at the Mount Sinai Morningside hospital in Manhattan. Telemetry refers to heart rhythm monitoring. Along with …
Taylor Buie, COL ’24, Philadephia, PA
My path began in the Spring of 2022. It was the night before my dance team’s, opening show night. As I looked around me, I saw friends smiling full of joy, smiles that even …
Catherine Buren, NUR & WH ’25, Scotch Plains, New Jersey
This past summer, I was very fortunate to be a summer research intern as part of a research team at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research here at …
Annie Yang, NUR ’23, Philadelphia, PA
This summer I worked as a nurse extern at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). Every year, HUP hired nursing students, or externs, to work on various specialty floors. I worked on …
Jimmy Bianchi, COL ’24, Scranton, PA
Prior to attending Penn, I had always aspired to attend medical school. However, I was both intimidated and excited by the vast array of professions one could pursue. During my second year at Penn, …
As part of an ongoing effort to explore the people that make University Life a diverse community of educators and humans, I sat down with an ordained minister, a chicken expert, a geographer, an actor, and a …
Aleena Alex, COL ’24, Philadelphia, PA
This summer I got the opportunity to conduct research with the Paralkar Lab. The Paralkar Lab studies how transcription factors and other related proteins affect normal hematopoiesis or blood cell development. The lab focuses …
Nicolette Peterson, COL ’23, Granby, MA
I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work one-on-one with Dr. Patrick Whelan for my second summer at UCLA Health. Dr. Whelan is a pediatric rheumatologist, and he is thought to …
This is part of a series of posts by recipients of the 2021 Career Services Summer Funding Grant. We’ve asked funding recipients to reflect on their summer experiences and talk about the industries in which they spent their summer. You …
