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 …
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 …
Madolin Bergman, COL ’25, Ventnor City, NJ
This summer, I had the privilege of working as an undergraduate researcher in Professor Dirk Trauner’s Lab within the Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania. My objective was to delve deeper into …
Paulina Bargallo Gonzalez Lugo, SEAS ’25, Mexico City, Mexico
This summer, I had the privilege of being part of the HAST Lab, which is within the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory. Under the guidance of Dr. Michael Hast, a Research Assistant …
Alan Han, SEAS ’25, Flushing, NY
The career services grant funded my cost of living expenses this summer as I worked as a lab assistant in Dr. Madl’s lab. I was able to clarify and expand on my preliminary test …
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, …
John Kim, SEAS ’26, North Potomac, MD
The 2024 Career Services Summer Funding Grant played a crucial role in helping me become a more experienced and accomplished researcher with Dr. Noor Momin, PhD. This was my first summer working with …
