Week 10:
The Children’s Hospital
August 3, 2013 | This past week was spent putting the finishing touches on my presentation. After I presented on Wednesday, I got some really great feedback from the doctors and other research assistants. After spending so much time on this project, it was great to get such wonderful encouragement. I also had the chance to start working on […]
Week 6:
Institute for Exploited, Trafficked and Missing Persons
August 2, 2013 | Planning this event is starting to take over my every waking moment. On top of that I am starting to have dreams, nay nightmares, about August 11th. I really had no idea what sort of work and commitment goes into planning an event like this. It is going to be really cool to see everything […]
Week 7:
University of Iowa Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
August 1, 2013 | Week 7 was wrapping up my experiment as much as I could. I finished running qPCRs using the cDNA from a NFN trial. After that, I compiled that data to determine if my results were significant or not. I was extremely pleased to find out that NFN significantly decreases TH1 and TH2. Yay!! However, the […]
Week 6:
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
July 30, 2013 | Well, I am going to Vegas! Throughout the summer, I have worked with our department to prepare materials for our national conference, the Total Store Expo. This is going to be a huge conference, with thousands of chain and community pharmacies, retailers, and pharmaceutical companies. We will also be offering numerous Insight Sessions, which I […]
Week 3:
Mexican Museum
July 30, 2013 | For the last couple of days, the Mexican Museum has been an exciting place to be because they’re going through a process of approval for a new museum site. The site will be located in an area with a large Latino community where the exhibitions can have a new audience with an invested interest in the subject matter. The […]
Week 5:
University of Chicago Medical Center
July 30, 2013 | Fellow in Research This past weekend my family came to visit me in Chicago! Of course we went to Giordano’s for deep dish pizza! We also went to a Cubs vs. Cardinals game. Sadly the Cardinals lost 🙁 Taste of Chicago was going on so we stopped by there before they drove back to Iowa. […]
Week 10:
Mayo Clinic
July 29, 2013 | This week I hit the ground running with the CAP analysis for our sleep deprivation study. We have five subjects who have completed the study so far. We will analyze five nights of sleep deprivation and five nights of normal sleep as a control. This means that we have to analyze 50 records in the […]
Week 8:
Project Transitions
July 27, 2013 | Knowing that I had only one week left, I sat chatting and crying with my supervisor at a fundraiser on Friday as we shared some of our favorite moments of the summer. That alone speaks to the fact that my internship experience has been a meaningful growing experience unlike any I’ve ever had. I’ll share […]
Week 9:
Twin Cities Orthopedics
July 27, 2013 | Twin Cities Orthopedics Physical Therapy has many patients who come and go with therapy once they have met the goals of their rehabilitation. These patients vary in age from young teen athletes to elderly who are living with arthritis. However, due to insurance coverage some patients are no longer able to afford therapy even though […]
Week 9:
The Children’s Hospital
July 25, 2013 | I can’t believe it is already week 9! I have been enjoying myself so much at the Children’s Hospital I haven’t noticed how quickly the summer has gone by. I am in the stages of finalizing my project, which is bittersweet. I have collected all the data and have submitted it for statistical analysis. Once […]