Asger Thieden, COL ’23, Copenhagen, Denmark
My summer experience was mostly spent in New York and mostly on the weekends. It is not often that you get to go on paid weekend trips to New York city and go out …
Lauren Davis, COL ’24, Los Angeles, CA
This summer, I have had the incredible opportunity to intern at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The Morgan has a long history of presenting magnificent works of art, literature, music, …
Hong Yu Liu, COL ’24, Broomall, PA
This summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to work in the Yang Lab which is part of Cancer Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine. The lab is interested in the role of …
Amishi Mahajan, COL ’25, West Bloomfield, MI
This summer, I spent my time on a different side of Penn’s campus: the Perelman School of Medicine. Though I enjoyed my morning coffee runs at Starbucks and lunches at Gia Pronto’s Kitchen, …
(Hosted by Janssen)
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My host was Dr. Sheng Gao, the Director of Immunology Translational Sciences at Janssen Pharmaceuticals. I am extremely fortunate to have been paired with an attentive, knowledgeable, and caring host …
Winston Peloso, COL’23, Princeton, NJ
This summer I sought to model charge transport in new materials using photoconductivity experiments. I fabricated measurement devices in the cleanroom, connected the devices to a multi-machine measurement setup, and used a lock-in amplifier to …
Hannah Kim, COL’25, Glastonbury, CT
Coming into Penn, the idea of research was still very vague to me. It had seemed like a keyword just thrown around, and I really had no idea what it entailed. So when near the …
Angelina Jala, COL’ 25, Philadelphia, PA
Over the summer, I had the privilege of being an Undergraduate Research Assistant in Dr. Yi-Wei Chang’s Lab within the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Utilizing the structural biology imaging technique, cryo-electron tomography, this …
Jong-Eun Park, COL ’25, Johns Creek, GA
I was desperate to find a research lab for the summer towards the end of spring. Luckily, through a friend’s recommendation I was able to secure one on campus. It was my first …
Rhoda Kaddu, COL ’25, Lowell, MA
This summer, I was fortunate to work in Dr.Dustin Brisson’s Evolutionary and Ecology
Lab at Penn’s Biology Department. Penn’s First-Year Exposure to Research Biological Sciences (Penn FERBS) Program introduced me to scientific research by …
