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Aria Osborne, COL ’26, Fairfax, VA

When I initially received my job offer to work as a student researcher at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, I didn’t quite know what I was in for. I applied for the job seeing it …

Aaron Lee, COL ’27, Marlboro, NJ

I still remember anxiously checking my phone, waiting for my turn to receive care.

5:03 a.m.? How is that even possible?

What began as a health scare and ambulance trip to the Hospital of …

Kamara Holmes, COL ’25, Smyrna, GA

This summer, I was fortunate to continue the molecular biology phase of my independent research project under the guidance of Dr. Elizabeth Heller in the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics here at …

Yennifer Barajas, COL ’27, Danbury, CT

Before my first year at Penn, I was not very familiar with what research truly was. I simply understood that researchers formed hypotheses and tested them. However, how they formed such complex hypotheses or …

During the Pre-health@Penn Presentation of New Student Orientation a few years ago, a freshman asked, “How does a ‘gap year’ happen?” as if talking about a nasty virus against which we should all be vaccinated.

We all laughed, of course, …