High School Honors Research Internship Program
Summer 2002


Weeks 5 and 6

Lyel, Jeff and Ravi work on the fabrication of semiconducter devices at MIT.

 

Youngmee prepares a gel at the medical labs.

 

Sunena conducts research on the sequence of the rat genome.

 

Weeks 3 and 4

Allison, Brij, Jeff, Evelyn and Erin meet with Siemens representative Marie Gentile.

 

Erica and Scott work on the atomic force microscope.

 

Brij prepares a dye for a gel.

 

Victor and FROP student Sally demonstrate the principles of acoustic levitation.

 

Erin prepares mussels for estrogen injections to study environmental factors.

 

Allison loads a sample into the FACS machine for computer analysis.

 

Professor Amy Mullin poses with her plaque from Siemens recognizing her for a successful mentoring of a student during Summer 2001.


Weeks 1 and 2

 

Eve does test measurements on the infrared camera for national telescope.
 
 

Catherine begins training on separating chick retinal tissue for analysis.
 
 

Kevin adjusts computer connections for data analysis.
 

Prestine and her mentor Frank Naya review analysis procedures.
 
 

Askia examines a micromirror surface for impurities.
 
 

Professor Ludwig assists Erica and Scott on formatting software for the analysis of data from the AFM.
 
 
 

Check back, more updates weekly as the program continues . . .