Shiraz Belblidia.
Shiraz Belblidia is a rising junior majoring in Biochemistry. She was born and raised in Los Angeles and will be returning to the University of Southern California as a summer research intern. Shiraz will work in Dr. Toshio Miki's lab at the Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research. Dr. Miki's project focuses on finding alternative treatment for mucopolysaccharidosis type I, a congenital metabolic disorder that has previously been treated by liver. Read her blog here! Linda Cartolano.
Linda Cartolano is a rising junior majoring in Psychology and minoring in Education. Linda will be doing research at Columbia University Teachers College to better understand how people solve math problems and what critical thinking strategies work best. Through this internship, she aspires to discover differentiated instructional methods for students of all mathematical abilities. Read her blog here! Kaavya Mahajan.
Kaavya Mahajan is a Vera Joseph Scholar & a rising junior, majoring in Neuroscience & Behavior and minoring in Economics. Kaavya enjoys teaching and looks forward to joining Breakthrough Collaborative this summer as a Teaching Fellow. Kaavya is thrilled to be teaching a STEM-related course and an additional elective at the Manhattan site this summer. Read her blog here! Micaela Naibryf.
Micaela Naibryf is a first-Year Barnard student considering a major in Applied Mathematics, as well as Chemical Engineering. Through the Barnard Noyce Teacher Scholars Program Summer Internship, Micaela will research carbon capture and storage, which is crucial to Earth’s environmental state. She aims to solidify her knowledge on carbon capture and storage in order to help other students understand the risks our environment faces. Read her blog here! |
Peri Callaway.
Perri Callaway is a rising junior majoring in Biology with a minor in Spanish and Latin American Studies. She is from San Diego, CA where she will be returning this summer to intern at the Salk Institute. Perri will work in Dr. Greg Lemke’s lab where she will study how TAM receptor signaling contributes to pathological microglia functions. Specifically, she will look at the TAM receptor signaling contribution that occurs in animals with Parkinson’s disease. Read her blog here! Geneva Hutcheson.
Geneva Hutcheson is a first year at Barnard College. She grew up in California where she interned at the University of California Davis Herbarium and volunteered for the California Native Plant Society. This summer, Geneva will be interning at the New York Botanical Garden in the William & Lynda Steere Herbarium mounting and organizing plant specimens. Read her blog here! Josephine McGowan.
Josephine McGowan is a rising junior at Barnard College from South Jersey, majoring in Neuroscience & Behavior and minoring in English. Josephine will be working in Christine Ann Denny's integrated neuroscience laboratory in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She will be performing the functional dissection of hippocampal circuitry in aged mice to identify how specific neurons become dysfunctional in the onset of AD transplantation. Read her blog here! |
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