Jorge Rodriguez, COL ’26, Vineland, NJ

This past summer, and my final one at Penn, I had the privilege of conducting research in the Marino Lab within the Department of Pathobiology. The lab investigates the dynamic and ongoing evolutionary arms …

Brian Cheng, COL & WH ’27, Rockledge, FL

After my tennis coach passed away from the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, I was left with many questions about why patients with rare conditions often have limited treatment options and face so many …

Aria Osborne, COL ’26, Fairfax, VA

When I initially received my job offer to work as a student researcher at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, I didn’t quite know what I was in for. I applied for the job seeing it …

Kenji Kaproth, SEAS ’25, Kensington, MD

In the summer of 2024, supported by a Penn Career Services Summer Funding Grant, I conducted on-campus research on ALS.

Before coming to Penn, I already knew that I wanted to contribute to research …

Assata Dawson, COL ’27, New Haven, CT

This summer, I had the opportunity to be an undergraduate researcher in the Mullins Lab. I spent ten weeks studying the early developmental stages of zebrafish, conducting my own research project under the …

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, …

Kamara Holmes, COL ’25, Smyrna, GA

This summer, I was fortunate to continue the molecular biology phase of my independent research project under the guidance of Dr. Elizabeth Heller in the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics here at …

Yennifer Barajas, COL ’27, Danbury, CT

Before my first year at Penn, I was not very familiar with what research truly was. I simply understood that researchers formed hypotheses and tested them. However, how they formed such complex hypotheses or …

Rokibat Bamidele, COL ’25, Philadelphia, PA

This summer, I had the privilege of continuing my research with the Kayser Lab on the genetics of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), building on the foundational work I began last year. The goal was …

Ryann Joseph, SEAS ’25, Columbus, OH

I was able to spend my third summer in Philadelphia this year researching in the Mitchell lab thanks to the funding I was awarded by Career Services. The Mitchell lab focuses on the lipid …