Week 2 Semester 2

This week has been pretty slow, my research at TGEN was limited to one day due to Monday's holiday. This week at TGEN I was given the task of sorting through several kit for disposal. The kits may contain chemicals which are considered hazardous so it is my job to sort through each kit and locate what chemical hazard are contained and how they are to be properly disposed of. This task proves to become difficult when kits come from companies which have been taken under new ownership and those kits are renamed and given a new product number. These kinds of tasks will coincide with my research upon the aerosol project allowing for me to not only do research to assist TGEN's labs but also assist the environmental health and safety department in keeping on track with proper protocols.

Week 1 Semester 2

This week has concluded my 4th week since the beginning of my internship at TGEN. Kathleen is a great mentor and she is in charge of the environmental health and safety aspect of TGEN's operations. An overview of my next semester will be research based on bio-aerosols and how they transmit viruses and diseases. I will also be in charge of keeping up to date safety data sheets based on the chemicals being used in the TGEN labs. I have done 1 inventory check and it is cool to get to see all the chemicals the labs use for all the different simultaneous projects being run.