My Summer with Archaea

Felicitas Tananibe, COL ’26, Philadelphia, PA

During my spring semester of last year, I knew I had to work in a research lab. For the longest time, I had the dreamt of being surrounded by microscopes, algar plates, and pipettes. …

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Research in Cognitive Science

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 …

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Understanding the Science behind our Decision-Making Processes

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 …

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Summer Research at MIT

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 …

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Life or Death

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 …

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Intoxicating Research: Drunk Fruit Flies Can Tell Us About Alcoholism

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 …

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A Summer of Research at CHOP

Leonardo Huang, COL ’24, Norwood, PA

During the summer, I was offered the opportunity to continue my research in the Canna Lab located at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia under the direct tutelage of Dr. Scott Canna. In addition to …

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Boot Camp Series for Current & Incoming Master’s Students – How Hiring Works in North America

Are you a current or incoming master’s student ready to plan for the upcoming year? Are you already thinking about internships and full-time jobs and how to stand out in a competitive job market?

If so, this boot camp series …

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Researching Virology and its Intricacies from Brain Organoids to Baby Hamster Kidney Cells

Xoshill Saldana, COL ’26, Phoenix, AZ

This summer I had the enriching opportunity of furthering my knowledge and understanding at the Jurado lab in Perlman’s department of Microbiology. As a student who enjoys STEM- I wanted to immerse myself in …

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A Wonderful Second Summer in Philadelphia

Ryann Joseph, SEAS ’25, Powell, OH

This summer was my second summer in the Mitchell Lab in the Department of Bioengineering. I have been working in this lab since January of 2022, so this summer gave me the opportunity to …

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