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, …
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 …
