Semester 2 post 9

After having worked in an office doing research for a couple weeks, Kathleen asked if I would like to head down to the waste room and take care of some other tasks she had available for me to do. I have to say it was pretty cool being down in the waste room getting to see what labs work with and how chemicals are disposed of properly and amount of knowledge it takes to do that job. Knowing what hazards a chemical has and how to properly dispose of is no piece of cake.  especially when kits are received and the contents of the kits must be separated and disposed of separately. I never really thought about that side of the labs but its a great experience.

Semester 2 post 8

After weeks of reading scientific journals, and research I am glad to say I am eager to present this Thursday.  My presentation took some fine tuning but The finished product really has caught my attention. This was my first literature review and it took sometime to get everything organized, I feel the data was the easy part to interpret, the difficult part was finding articles that had data that would correlate with the target of my project. I read over 15 articles, examined the data and in the end had to decide which articles correlated best with the intended goal so I could fine tune the presentation and final research paper to have a conclusion drawn and explanation for the data put together.

Semester 2 post 7

Over all this past semester has really past by extremely fast, time has flown between 2 internships and full time school. As this semester draws to a close and finals approach I wish everyone best of luck on finals. My project with TGEN has really shown me a new way to think of lab environments and how safety features in labs are set for reasons beyond what we know. This aerosol project has shed light on places where improvements can be made. Kathleen was a great mentor to work with this semester and has intrigued an interest in me for  Environmental Health and Safety and how it is important to fully understand the "Why?" protocols are set in place.