Global Research & Internship Program

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Lunchtime Adventures

By: Sophie Thorel, Wharton ’21 Drishti Works – Mumbai, India Come 1:30 pm, I’m seized with the classic excitement derived from both stomach and mind: where to for lunch today? Every day my lunch break brings new flavors and textures: from dosas with coconut chutney, to thepla and moong and chaat and idli and dozens…

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Working in a Global Office Invested in Impact

By: Alana Adams, CAS ’20 Alana Adams (back row, third from left) and other GRIP interns and Ashoka co-workers Ashoka – Mexico City, Mexico This summer, I had the privilege of working for Ashoka at the Impact Hub in Mexico City. What struck me, not only about the Ashoka, but the Impact Hub itself, was…

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Walking Around a Saigon Wet Market

By: Leechen Zhu, CAS ’21 Environmental Sustainability in Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam I faced baskets and baskets of green mangoes. Only green mangoes. I didn’t even know green mangoes of this shape could be ripe. The vendor pointed at each one and rattled off the list of varieties, not that…

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Jumping Outside of My Comfort Zone

By: Shreya Naraparaju, CAS ’22 Business in Sydney – Sydney, Australia If you were to ask any of my friends to describe me, the last word they would probably use is reckless. As someone who doesn’t like taking risks, I always go into any situation with a set plan (in addition to a plan b,…

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On Novelty & New Beginnings

By: Cindy Luo, CAS ’20 PGS – Multiple GRIP – Legal Research in Braga – Braga, Portugal I look back at my college career as a senior, and I am privileged and grateful to have had a plethora of global experiences and opportunities through Penn. And each time that I find myself in a completely…

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Lessons from Teatime in Buenos Aires

By: Shaila Lothe, CAS ’22 Social Impact in Buenos Aires – Buenos Aires, Argentina Before my internship in Buenos Aires, I was dreading the idea of eating dinner every day at 9 PM. As someone who normally eats around 6 or 7 PM, I wondered how Argentines went from lunch at 2 PM to dinner…

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Comida Por Peso

By: Shaila Lothe, CAS ’22 Social Impact in Buenos Aires – Buenos Aires, Argentina In my time in Buenos Aires, I have started making myself at home. I’ve fallen into familiar routines. For example, each workday around 1 PM, I start making my way to my favorite lunch place. A few blocks away, the owner…

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A Global City

By: Carolyn Chow, CAS ’20 World Medical Association – Ferney-Voltaire, France Besides watches and chocolate, Geneva is reputed for essentially bringing the world together. It’s the location of the second-largest United Nations office in the world, the World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, CERN, and scores of other international organizations. There is…

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An Internship of Flexibility

By: Felicia Chen, Nursing ’22 Felicia (center) at her internship in Vietnam Friends for Street Children – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam If I could describe Vietnam in one word it would be: flexible. The flexibility of calling motorbikes through three different transportation services and swiveling through the obstructed maze-like roads– unregulated, unquestioned. The flexibility…

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Old and New

By: Mark Lis, CAS ’21 Mark (front row, second from left) and friends at the Jerusalem Light Festival Bar Ilan University – Tel Aviv, Israel For my GRIP internship I worked in a molecular biology lab focusing on mRNA expression under stress conditions in Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. While my research was not connected…