Seven College students have dedicated the first part of their summer vacation to exciting internship opportunities.
After an intense first year at the College, seven students have dedicated the first part of their summer vacation to exciting internship opportunities at distinguished scientific and academic institutions in Trieste: ICTP, SISSA and the University of Trieste.
Nikolina (Montenegro), Benjamin (Sweden), and Leonardo (Italy) were thrilled to work on deriving and simplifying the formula for the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Lhana (The Philippines), also at the ICTP, explored citizen science by working with an MIT platform for creating mobile apps to design an app citizens can use to contribute to environmental monitoring. Akhalya (Canada) and Dejana (Serbia) had their first experience in a wet lab at the University of Trieste, where they produced and purified a protein called TEV protease. Meanwhile, Kristina (Slovakia) contributed to a paleo-astronomy project at SISSA, working on data processing to determine if carvings on a stone from a nearby archaeological site represent stellar asterisms.
Immersing themselves in these dynamic research environments has proved extremely enriching and all our students expressed immense gratitude for the support from their supervisors. Kristina commented,
This experience has also proved to be very significant for the students’ future. Kristina mentioned that it has made her
while Benjamen went as far as to say
Leonardo and his peers were equally enthusiastic about the diversity and collaborative spirit of scientists from all over the world at the ICTP. He mentioned finding it
Aside from the scientific knowledge and skills they acquired, students also appreciated more general lessons learned while doing research work, like Dejana who has discovered
The excitement and deep satisfaction that comes with overcoming the challenges posed by scientific research is something all these students experienced and which will greatly benefit them, as explained by their chemistry teacher at Adriatic, Dimitrina Trendafilova
