Leah Tesfa, SEAS ’24, Harare, Zimbabwe

This summer I had the amazing opportunity of working at New Hudson Facades, NHF, as a mechanical engineering intern on the JP Morgan 270 Park Avenue Project. Being a MEAM and Accelerated Robotics Masters …

Paulina Bargallo, SEAS ’25, Mexico City, Mexico

As someone who has asked many questions since very early in life, research has been a path I have been shown to follow. After joining UPENN, I decided to first adapt to the …

Euel Kebebew, COL ’25, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to work alongside Dr. Julia Gray on her research about international organizations (IOs). These organizations, often operating behind the scenes, play a significant role in global …

Petros Kaklamanis, COL ’24, Athens, Greece

During the summer I worked as an intern at the Computational Communicative Development Lab (CoCoDev) which is part of the Aix-Marseille University (Marseille, France).

As an intern at the Computational Communicative Development Lab, I …

Yuting Zhu, COL ’25, Shanghai, China

This summer I had to opportunity to work as a Performance improvement intern at Fox Chase Cancer Center, one of the oldest US cancer hospitals designated by National Cancer Institute. As an intern in …

Forest Ho-Chen, SEAS ’26, Yardley, PA

This past summer, I worked as a student researcher at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. The task was to use machine learning and Support Vector Regression models to fill in the holes for …

Rokibat Bamidele, COL ’25, Philadelphia, PA

Fruit flies and humans do in fact share many similarities, and one that I recently learned of is how alcohol influences behavior. While alcohol studies in humans have been ongoing for many years with …

Sudhish Devadiga, COL ’24, Voorhees, NJ

This past summer, I continued my journey of investigation in the realm of hematological malignancies. I have conducted research in the Klein Lab, a translational hematology-oncology lab, since my freshman year, mentored by postdoc …

Seo Yoon Yang, COL & WH ’25, Chattanooga, TN

Visiting my homeland for the first time in almost five years as an adult, living alone in Seoul, South Korea–one of the busiest cities in Asia–this summer, I reconciled my Korean …

Areebah Ahmed, COL ’26, Dallas, TX

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to travel over 8,000 miles to my mother country, Bangladesh. Over the time I was there, I traveled back and forth between Dhaka, where my mother is …