My Summer in the Planet Lab

Prabh Kaur, COL ’26, Seaford, DE

This summer, I continued my work in the Paul Planet Lab at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) under the mentorship of postdoctoral researcher Dr. Amy Campbell and PhD candidate Nicholas Bolden.

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Behind the Scenes of Epidemiology and Toxicology Research: Dr. Aimin Chen’s Biostatistics Lab

Victoria Valdivia, SEAS ’28, Miramar, FL

The world of toxicology and epidemiology is an influential and ever-evolving one. Over the last year, I have been diving deeper into some of the most pressing issues related to American health and toxic …

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Critical Care Nurse Extern Experience

Amanda Moore, NUR ’26, Poughkeepsie, NY

This summer I had the amazing opportunity to participate in a nursing externship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. For 10 weeks, I shadowed multiple nurses and got the chance to work in two …

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A Summer as a Nurse Extern in the ICU

Leslie Njingang, NUR ’26, Silver Spring, MD

This past summer, I had a great opportunity to participate in the Clinical Nurse Externship Program with the Johns Hopkins Health System. My rotations in the Medical ICU and Cardiac ICU exposed me …

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A Summer in the Archives

Elle Hall-Holt, NUR ’26, Northfield, MN

The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of Nursing History welcomed me as their first undergraduate research fellow in the summer of 2025, and it was a truly fantastic experience. On my first day …

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A Summer in Pathobiology

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 …

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When Cancer Sleeps: A Summer Researching Breast Cancer Dormancy

Uzair Bilal, COL ’27, Edinburg, TX

This summer, I had the amazing opportunity to conduct breast cancer research in Dr. Lewis Chodosh’s lab at Penn Medicine under the guidance of Hamza Turkistani. My project focused on breast cancer dormancy, a …

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Movement, Menstruation, and Mentorship: A Summer at the Intersection of Research and Rehabilitation

Chantal Ameh, COL ’27, Liverpool, United Kingdom

This summer, I had the privilege of working alongside physiotherapist Dr. Ann Nwabuebo at Body Connect Physical Therapy in Bethesda, Maryland, as well as researcher Dr. Jaclyn Hadfield on a project exploring the …

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Navigating Global Compliance in Manhattan

Xiyuan Lin, COL ’27, Fuzhou, China, & Hartford, CT

As I sat on the Greyhound to Midtown Manhattan, I gazed out my window, trying to imagine what compliance actually entailed. I was first introduced to the idea of compliance as …

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A Summer in Biotech VC

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 …

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