June 14, 2015
By: Marie-Martine Uwera
[caption id="attachment_1103" align="alignnone" width="300"] Dr. John Perfect[/caption] On Thursday, June 11th, I got an extraordinary opportunity to interview my primary mentor, Dr. John Perfect. I was very inspired than ever in my life and it’s exciting to share his career...
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By: Kathy Dai
The name Dr. Qiu Wang is likely familiar to most Duke undergrads, especially those in my year, through her fall semester Organic I class. I actually wasn't bold enough last year to join in that special first semester freshman orgo...
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By: Mickias Tegegn
The Principal investigator in my lab is a woman by the name of Marilyn Telen. She’s a very accomplished individual whose background is both peculiar and inspiring. With a degree in Philosophy and Asian studies and two post baccalaureate jobs...
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By: Adam Yaseen
Like I said in my last post, I am working in the Buchler Lab with my mentor, Nicolas Buchler. When Dr. Buchler entered UC San Diego as an undergrad, he intended to study chemistry, but after taking organic chemistry, Dr....
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By: Justin Sapp
The story of my Principal Investigator, is more than ordinary, it’s extraordinary. Dr. Phillip Benfey’s journey started after leaving a university in Massachusetts. After leaving he went travelling around the world. In the numerous places he travelled Dr. Benfey participated...
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By: Hayden Walcott
This week I interviewed my P.I. Dr. Steve Haase. Dr. Haase started out at Colorado State University at Ft.Collins. There he studied biochemistry and chemistry and researched Vibrio cholerae, working to develop genetic tools to study the bacterium's genetics and...
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By: Christin Hong
Dr. Kenneth Poss is the Principle Investigator of the lab that I have the wonderful opportunity to work in this summer. Through our interview, I really got to witness the fervor Dr. Poss has for new discoveries, life questions, and...
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By: Rachel Yang
Although I work with Dr. Craig Henriquez in a research setting, I feel extremely fortunate to see him as both a researcher and a professor. Not only is he a dedicated researcher and engaged in every project he oversees, but...
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By: Brian Chan
This past Wednesday, I sat down and talked with my PI, Dr. Mike Lynch. By the end of the conversation, one thing was abundantly clear about Dr. Lynch: he absolutely loves science. As an undergraduate at Washington University in St....
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By: Emily Wu
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with my PI, Dr. Ahmad Hariri, who generously took time out of his busy schedule to share with me some personal anecdotes about his process of entering the world of scientific research. Dr. Hariri...
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By: Fabian Jimenez Contreras
It all started on in the town of Boston Massachusetts. A young bright eyed Richard ( or Dick as his friends call him) Brennan began his academic career at the University of Boston. Science was not his first interest as...
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By: Danielle Dawes
This summer I am honored to be working in Dr. George Truskey's Biomedical Engineering lab. Dr. Truskey received a Bachelor’s Degree in Bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania. He was planning on being pre-med and majoring in Chemistry when he discovered...
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By: Brandon Thio
This week I had toe opportunity to sit down with my P.I. Dr. Nate Crosby and ask him the really important questions on how he got his start in the exciting field of Biomedical Engineering research. Dr. Crosby got his...
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By: Joe Kreitz
This past Monday I had the opportunity to converse with my PI, Dr. Lingchong You, and to ask him how he originally got involved in science. He made some very interesting points, and I will share some of them here!...
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June 13, 2015
By: Reena Debray
When I first met Dr. Tung, she was my professor for a course in the Modeling in Economic and Social Sciences Focus program, a seminar program for first-semester freshmen. She told us that she had once been a Duke student...
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June 12, 2015
By: Michael Widmann
Looking across the table I see my grilled vegetable sandwich and my PI Dr. Gong. I wasn’t sure whether I was more excited to eat a meal I hadn’t cooked myself or to talk to my mentor. Turns out the...
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June 10, 2015
By: Hayden Walcott
Here's a picture from my bench in the Haase lab. In the background you can see one of the water baths we grow all our experiments in and the window to the office. Lab has been pretty great. Even though...
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June 8, 2015
By: Justin Sapp
This summer I expect to have a fulfilling time in the Phillip Benfey lab at Duke University. Since I was a child I was always interested in science. I thought it answered a great many questions I had about the...
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