Cornell Fellows

March 11, 2014 | The past week had ended with a partial success on one of the trials. Believe me, preparing and going to one is very nerve-wreaking. This past week however, has been less rushed and has given me more time to focus on improving marketing strategies given our size and limitations. I have begun working with Kurt […]

March 5, 2014 | This week, I was allowed to really sink my teeth into the various projects in Dr. Wasserman’s lab. In one project, we are preparing to test the pigeons with rotated stimuli to see if they can generalize what they’ve learned. These pigeons already have very high accuracy when presented with familiar stimuli, and we want […]

March 4, 2014 | Over the past week, I have begun to see how economics plays a direct role in how we perform. It was a beguiling epiphany as in that I now see how the market in this area works in terms of hiring attorneys and how we as a small private start-up firm, fit into the market […]

February 27, 2014 | This week, I was finally allowed to run the birds entirely on my own. It kept me very busy, but it was also interesting to get to know the pigeons on a new level. I’ve even taken to naming them. Nimrod is a female who likes to fly into the wall of her skinner box, […]

February 25, 2014 | The past week has been very exciting indeed. As my site mentor is an advisor to Illinois Congressman Mike Quigley, we were invited to a breakfast get together and political discussion with him, his crew, and various other lawyers from the city. The event was hosted by a big law firm, Jenner and Block in […]

February 20, 2014 | I must be the luckiest fellow in the world! Everyone I work with in Spence Laboratories is exceedingly friendly. I am one of five students working under Dr. Edward Wasserman and Dr. Leyre Castro Ruiz on their current project. I work with two graduate students, one of whom, Jennifer, is my mentor specifically and with […]

February 18, 2014 | I left Cornell on Valentine’s Day to set out on a four-hour bus ride to Chicago to begin my fellowship. The past few days have been very different from my normal days at Cornell as I got settled into my rental apartment in the West Loop of the city over the weekend. A friend studying […]

February 18, 2014 | It’s been a little over a month, and I feel like I have established something of a routine here at the lab. I mostly enter data now for the bone loss prevention study. This study is a kind of sister project to the SSRI bone mass density study, which seeks to monitor and uncover correlations […]

February 11, 2014 | This week I not only got on the schedule to shadow a visit, but the participant showed up too! I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to observe a  visit for some time, as two participants beforehand had blown off their scheduled meetings. This is pretty common. When I asked Nichole (a more senior research assistant […]

February 7, 2014 | As this is my last week here and it’s tech week for the show, it has really been a great chance for me to reflect on all the things I’ve learned over the course of my internship. By no means was it all fun and games. At times, I felt overwhelmed by the rigor of […]