With graduation right around the corner, many soon-to-be PhDs and postdocs will be beginning their first role as a faculty member.  Earlier this semester, Penn’s Career Services hosted a First Generation Graduate Student Week, which included a panel of faculty …

Racquelle Moxey, COL ’23, Orlando, FL

This summer I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant in the Changing Brain Lab, a Penn Child Development Lab focused on studying how the brain changes as people grow and learn …

Ian Mijael Zhang, COL ’25, Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Has the Argentine public sector’s size gone out of control in the last two decades? Is Argentina heading to a labor market dominated by public employment? It sure seems …

Abdul-Rakeem Yakubu, COL ’23. Mooresville, NC

Coming into the summer, my main goal was to get more in person experience with k12 students and develop my independent project for the year. Unfortunately, with COVID-19 spiking again this summer I wasn’t …

Michelle Yoon, COL ’23, Daejeon, South Korea

This summer I was fortunate enough to receive funding to continue working in the Brodkin Lab, which I joined in the fall of 2020. I am part of the TUNE-In (Training to Understand and …

by: Jay Monahan

As part of an ongoing effort to explore the people that make University Life a diverse community of educators and humans, I sat down with an ordained minister, a chicken expert, a geographer, an actor, and a …

Brinn Gammer, COL ’24, Hazleton, PA

In my sophomore year, I switched from being prospectively pre-med to pre-law.

It sounds like quite the jump, but it wasn’t as unexpected as it may seem. I’ve always been interested in psychiatry and …

Cathryn Boga, COL ’23, Tampa, FL

This summer, I had the opportunity to work at the Center for Psychotherapy Research, a research department in Penn Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. Having only preliminary psychology research experience, I was excited at the …

Katelyn Jones, COL ’24, Fayetteville, PA

Climate change – one problem that will undoubtably plague the future of the planet. Among other global issues, rising global ocean temperatures feels like an out-of-control train car that just can’t seem to be stopped. …

Aleena Alex, COL ’24, Philadelphia, PA

This summer I got the opportunity to conduct research with the Paralkar Lab. The Paralkar Lab studies how transcription factors and other related proteins affect normal hematopoiesis or blood cell development. The lab focuses …