Week 5:
Institute for Exploited, Trafficked and Missing Persons
July 25, 2013 | This has been an incredible week here in Minneapolis. Work has been absolutely crazy. We are really getting close to the event that I have been planning and we have FINALLY decided on a design and marketing strategy. I had no idea the amount of work, planning, and diplomacy that goes into branding an event […]
Week 9:
University of Iowa Department of Biochemistry
July 23, 2013 | Things are continuing to come to a close for my experience here. I’m still working on cloning constructs H36 and H37, and the HCN1 N terminus construct H35 is ready for injection, but the amount of experiment work I do is dwindling. This week we injected construct H27, one of Yuan’s constructs that had low […]
Week 2:
Mexican Museum
July 23, 2013 | From week one into week two, I spent my days emailing Chicano artists in the Bay area or close to San Francisco to hold an interview with them. Even though there is a great amount of Chicano artists located at San Francisco, I wanted to make sure I would meet the primary artists that took […]
Week 5:
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
July 23, 2013 | Another week down. Unfortunately, this Fellowship is moving way too quickly! This weekend I went to Union Market to DC Scoop! This is a huge event where tons of ice cream vendors set up booths and give you free samples!! It was a really cool experience and the ice cream was great. It was also […]
Week 9:
Mayo Clinic
July 22, 2013 | After being at the Mayo Clinic for over nine weeks now, I have gotten into a routine. This is what a typical day in the lab looks like: My day begins by walking from my apartment to work through the skyway/subway system at Mayo. The picture to the left is the lobby of the Gonda […]
Week 4:
University of Chicago Medical Center
July 22, 2013 | Fellow in Research I got to visit a high school friend of mine over the 4th of July weekend!!! It was nice to escape the city for a few days and relax in nature!!! On Monday I ran another BCA protein assay to compare the protein concentrations of unstimulated and stimulated exosomal protein from dendritic […]
Week 8:
Twin Cities Orthopedics
July 20, 2013 | With only a few more weeks at Twin Cities Orthopedics I am finishing up my experiences and opportunities. This week I was able to view some x-rays of ankle replacement, ankle fusion as well as a tibia plateau fracture stabilization. A few of the physical therapists explained how the surgeons stabilize the injured areas and […]
Week 6:
University of Iowa Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
July 19, 2013 | My poster now has a title!!! The title is ‘The Inhibition of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Affects Melanocytes and Dopamine Neurons.” Once Barbara and I finished figuring out the title, I realized that I need to make a poster. To make the poster, I need something to show for all the work that I’ve done over the […]
Week 8:
The Children’s Hospital
July 18, 2013 | This past week I had some more shadowing opportunities. On Monday, I was in the OR again with a different orthopedic surgeon. In the morning, the surgeon performed a spinal fusion. I was very excited to be getting to watch a spinal fusion, since I have read a lot about them for my research project. […]
Week 7:
Project Transitions
July 17, 2013 | On my AP English Language exam in junior year of high school, I learned to write synthesis essays. My first block at Cornell (Educational Psychology), my final 17 page paper was essentially a synthesis essay. When I created study guides to study for my Religions of the World course, I essentially wrote a synthesized cumulative […]