June 12, 2014
By: Becky Li
Salutations everyone! So my primary mentor is unfortunately out of town this week, but instead this post gets not one, but TWO interviews from the people who have both taught me everything I've learned since Day 1: the most senior...
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June 11, 2014
By: Dani Smith
Sitting down with Dr. Sheila Patek for this interview, it was clear to me how much this scientist loves her work. She carved the time for this interview out of an incredibly busy schedule, running from meeting to meeting in...
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June 9, 2014
By: Daniel Lam
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing (Wernher von Braun) Since I was young, I have always been always obsessed with everything alive. The mimosa leaf that wrinkles when touched, the leaf insect that sneakily...
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June 8, 2014
By: Wilson Brace
Good evening Internet! It’s been a crazy and challenging week. Honestly, a month ago I had no idea what to expect when it came to working in a lab. Would I be observing animal behavior? Humans? Fish? Flies? Would I...
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By: Vanessa Wu
This week has been my first real foray into the world of research, and from day one I feel like I've hit the ground running. I am working in the Blobe lab in the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology,...
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By: Miranda Allen
(Look, mom! My very own bench space!) Most of my friends from back home thought I was pretty crazy for “sacrificing” most of my summer to work in a lab. But, really, I feel that I would be sacrificing so...
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By: Feimei Liu
I guess the first year of college is a labyrinth for everybody to some extent. We all have countless questions, endless curiosity, as well as apprehension for the unknown future. It is a period of time for us to explore...
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By: Matt Alston
Hi all, My first week in Dr. Warren Grill's lab was a huge learning experience. On my first day I sat down with my secondary mentor, Brandon Swan, and he explained my assignment to me; figure out how to analyze...
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By: Becky Li
Greetings internet! Wow, to think that it's been a week already... And to make things sound even more ephemeral, we are continuously reminded that our 8 weeks will fly by just like that. Keeping that in mind, I hope I...
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By: Mitch Lee
When we gathered for our first official morning meeting as Howard Hughes Fellows, we were given—in addition to coffee and an immensely appreciated breakfast—a few handfuls of useful advice, encouragement, and assurance about scientific research, its methods, purpose, and benefits....
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By: Erin Brooks
"She may be wearing blue, but she's green," chuckled my primary mentor Dr. Marc Caron as he introduced me to the lab PI, Larry Barak, and my secondary mentor Joshua Snyder. Its true, I am...
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By: Nina Sun
New summer, new lab, new people, new operating systems. The first thing I learned at Dr. Bruce Donald's lab was how to open a file. Yes, I was making progress at record-breaking pace with the help from my undergraduate mentor,...
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By: Ayo Douglas
Learning science has always been one of my deepest passions, and I am always very excited about the constant sense of discovery, no matter how small, that research brings. I am truly glad to be able to finally put into...
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By: Jo Zhu
First week in the HHRF Program: I was introduced as the only undergrad to a group of welcoming ph.D students in Duke CBB (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Program, only then to be completely overwhelmed by their presentations during group meeting....
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By: Azeb Yirga
I just finished my first week interning at the Coers lab. This first week has been wonderful, and it has made me look forward to the rest of my time in this lab. I’m enjoying the experience because I’m working...
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By: Hannah Kwak
Why do you like neuroscience? Sometimes I find this question to be the most frustrating and difficult to answer. World-changing, groundbreaking, and clinically invaluable researches are not what actually drive my interest in neuroscience; I’m just purely fascinated by our...
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By: Levi Edouna
I have had a fair amount of laboratory experience, whether it be from lab courses in high school, at Duke, or summer programs over the summer. During that time, I was pretty sure that I had mastered the art of...
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By: Victoria Green
I can't believe I am back in the lab! I participated in two research summer programs previously, so I thought I would know what to expect this summer. . . Already the Howard Hughes Research Fellows program has surpassed my expectations!...
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