It has only been a week of summer work and so far I have put in more hours in the lab than I would normally in a month during the school year. I absolutely love it. Spending my time actually…
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Membrane Formation with Microfluidics
The school year is over! It’s amazing to think that I’m half way done with college; time passes by so quickly. This summer I will continue my research with my new mentor with the UC LEADS program. Our project is…
Time for summer research
A whole weekend of summer vacation? Sweet!…. Seriously though, I already start work tomorrow? I feel like I just got out of my last final. My summer research project is in a chemistry lab at Caltech. The project is to…
Summertime
Another school year has culminated, and the core of my upper division biochemistry major course have been completed. Some of the classes I took were way more rigorous than I ever expected (Even though I had been warned about the…
Hectic Spring
Finally I am sitting down to write about my research work this quarter. Unfortunately I was unexposed to the rays of sunshine in Santa Barbara this spring because all of my time was consumed by studying, research projects, and organizational…
Usual finals stress and ect.
I have had a very small amount of time to do research this week but, I think we found a temperature where we can try to get the results we want on Friday which, ironically, is the last day of…
Posted in 2010-2011
Time is Tricky
For one thing, I keep losing track of when I’m supposed to be posting! For another, dead week looked a lot longer on the other side of Wednesday. In 12 verrrry short hours I’ve gone from “Oh, I practically have…
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Madison Cornwell is a second year student majoring in Biochemistry and Spanish. She is a EUREKA intern through the California NanoSystems Institute and the Resident Assistant of the Women in Science and Technology House in Manzanita Village. She will be working closely with Dr. Kosik and graduate student Israel Hernandez for the remainder of her time at UCSB.See all her posts
