By: Julianna Shinnick, Penn Nursing Julianna visiting a monastery in Arequipa, Peru Zoonotic Diseases Field Laboratory – Arequipa, Peru This summer, I am working on research about Chagas’ Disease in Arequipa, Peru. The work itself is familiar, as I have been working with the team from Philadelphia for several months now. We are preparing an intervention…
By: Jiyeux Seok, SEAS ’20 Jiyeux on a day trip to Pulau Ubin Engineering Research in Singapore The sun hid behind a blanket of clouds as a rag-tag group of adventure-hungry Penn students stepped onto a bumboat amidst loud plops of rain against rough waters. “It always randomly rains like this,” I assured the others. “It’ll…
By: Heta Patel, CAS ’21 Heta in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala Guatemala Health Initiative – Santiago Atitlán Picture a rural town. What do you see? Now, take a deep breath. What does it smell like?…
By: Anna Bennett, Penn Nursing ’20 Anna (left) on a weekend trip to Galway Nursing Research in Dublin – Ireland Before this internship, I really hadn’t left the East Coast. My hometown and Philly were really the only things familiar to me. Prior to leaving, I really didn’t know how I was going to adjust…
By: Ethan Boyer, SEAS ’21 Ethan on a visit to Cologne, Germany Engineering Research in Aachen, Germany I just finished the second week of my ten-week research internship in Aachen Germany and so far the experience has been amazing. The research I am doing in 3-D printing microvascular networks at the RWTH Aachen university hospital is…
By: Nora Hennessy, Nursing ’21 Trinity College Dublin – Dublin, Ireland The first day of work I attended a conference on Spirituality in Healthcare in Ireland. It was so great. There were many excellent lecturers and guest speakers, including Janet Quinn, who is a major mindfulness speaker in the US. My favorite part was the…
By: Sarah Jacobs, CAS ’19 Guatemala Health Initiative – Santiago Atitlan During my time in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, I’ve done a great deal of traveling and immersing myself in my host culture. I’ve learned to weave, make tortillas, and the proper way to put on a Huipil, the traditional dress of the women in my community.…
By: Cindy Luo, CAS ’20 University of Minho Law School – Braga, Portugal I enjoy reading about all types of places, people, and events. And I find myself falling in love with these things even before I have my first real encounter with them. With Portugal, I wanted to be culturally open-minded, to have an…
By: Jane Bozsik, CAS ’19 Owl Monkey Project – Formosa Province, Argentina My time abroad has been more unusual than most. Most of the week we spend camping in the Gran Chaco, crafting our own meals over a stovetop rather than eating out. Our camp diet is composed of whatever is offered at local grocery…
By: Thomas Calder, CAS ’20 Penn Anthropology – Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala Lots of Penn students spend their time between different countries and are very accustomed to traveling long distances and adjusting to new places. This was not the case for me: I’m from just over an hour’s drive outside Philadelphia, and these first ten days in…
