Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife on Apr 12th, 2013
Last summer, I embarked on my first true scientific journey—cancer research at the Center of Applied Molecular Medicine (CAMM) at USC’s Health Sciences Campus. Eager to learn what research was all about, I began with basic safety training, BSA assays, and a group of dedicated people, all eager to pass on their knowledge and help [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Civic Engagement through USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife on Mar 26th, 2013
After hearing all about the Joint Educational Project (JEP) from my roommate Sophie, I figured that I had to give it a try this semester. JEP pairs USC students with schools, organizations, and non-profits in the surrounding neighborhood to facilitate service-learning through positions as teaching assistants, mentors, and interns. Students spend two hours onsite per [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Civic Engagement through USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife, USC Dornsife Students in Los Angeles on Feb 26th, 2013
You know when you walk into the locker room to find a rack of fully stocked scrubs, it’s going to be a good day— and what a surprise, it was indeed a GREAT day. Not a particularly busy or interesting day but I really felt like a valuable part of the patient care team. I [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife on Feb 16th, 2013
Every time I would attend some sort of informational session about USC during my senior year of high school, the speakers would talk about SOAR and SURF. I had heard and understood that research was supposed to be a big part of the college experience, and USC would apparently give me a grant in order [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students, Research in USC Dornsife, USC Dornsife Students in Los Angeles on Sep 13th, 2012
Welcome back, everyone! This is my first blog post for the new school year, so I just want to tell you a little bit about my summer. As the title of this post suggests, I spent 78 days here at USC through a generous grant from the Rose Hills Foundation, continuing the research that I [...]
Posted in Research in USC Dornsife, USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on Jun 11th, 2012
Have you ever recovered from a fourteen-hour time change? It’s awful. Really – for almost a week, I was stuck falling asleep at 5 a.m. and waking up at one. But for three more weeks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I’d hop back on a plane tomorrow. That’s right – I just got back from Kazakhstan! I [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife on Apr 21st, 2012
Hey everyone! As faithful readers of this blog will be aware, I recently got a position as a research assistant in Professor Qin’s lab. About a month and a half or so ago, Dr. Qin encouraged me to make a poster and present at the Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and Biochemistry, which [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife on Mar 12th, 2012
We all joke about those silly safety packets and lectures we are forced to sit through before we take a science course, before we enter a science laboratory, before every experiment in lab… it never ends. We laugh, we mock, we don’t pay attention. But, guys, let’s get real. We’re in college now. We’re not [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife on Feb 10th, 2012
Hello everyone! Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted… I managed to misplace the link, and my password, and you know how school catches up to you and you don’t even realize it until it’s too late already. >.< Well just a few weeks ago I got a position as a research assistant in [...]
Posted in Research in USC Dornsife, USC Dornsife Ambassador Intros on Nov 16th, 2011
Hey! My name is Neelam Phalke, and I’m a Biochemistry major here at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. I am also a Business Administration minor at the Marshall School of Business. I’m from Las Vegas, Nevada. The transition from the constant dry, desert heat during the summers, and cold (not as [...]