Jonathan Lamothe, WH ’25, Pennsauken, NJ

This summer I had the opportunity to work with the team at the African American Resource Center (AARC) at Penn. The AARC is a valuable resource for both the Philadelphia and University of Penn …

Joella Byerley, COL ’24, Easton, PA

This summer, I had the opportunity to work with the Managing Director’s Office of Health and Human Services (MDO-HHS) for the City of Philadelphia. The department develops strategies for cross-agency collaboration to help improve …

Marcella Soewignjo, COL ’25, Bayside, NY

With an average of 86 billion neurons forming intricate networks, it can be agreed upon that the human brain holds a great deal of cognitive capacity. However, despite the many years of research that …

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 …

After recently attending a conference for career services professionals in higher ed and seeing the energy and excitement in many breakout rooms, I was reminded how industry annual conferences are great opportunities for career enrichment.

The nature of programming and …

Hosted by the Penn Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CETLI)

This summer, we will be featuring blog posts written by PhD students who participated in Career Services’ Career Exploration Fellowship (CEF), a program that helps doctoral candidates …

Monika Lee, COL ’24, Los Angeles, CA

During my time as a Global Investments Intern at Aflac, I engaged in a multifaceted role that encompassed a range of vital responsibilities within the investment landscape. My daily tasks included overseeing trade …

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 …

Abetzi Vazquez Ochoa, COL ’25, Houston, TX

This summer was filled with cells, drugs, and questions surrounding both the PIDDosome complex’s ability to activate with the degradation of its N-Terminal, and my ability to even answer that question.

I was …