Artist + Med Lab Assistant
Over the part couple of weeks I’ve become more interested in environmentalism and sustainability. You hear a lot about this topic on social media like going to a zero-waste lifestyle, minimalism, switching to a vegetarian/vegan diet etc. etc. And I’ve been seeing this a lot more recently on my social media feed. Maybe it’s because [...]
Intro: I remember in my grade 11 biology class our teacher brought us to the little forest behind our school. She told us that we were going to carefully collect leaves from specific plants and identify them. From all the leaves we had to collect and identify, the one I remembered the most was the [...]
When I went to the Philippines 9 years ago, dengue fever was a big concern for my mom. She constantly had my sister and I cover ourselves in mosquito repellent in order to minimize our chances of getting the virus. That memory stuck with me and has now lead me to investigate the dengue virus [...]
On Wednesday, January 30th my friends and I attended the University of Waterloo's President's Lecture featuring 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Donna Strickland. We listened to her talk about her research and how it led her to develop chirped pulse amplification with Gérard Mourou, her Ph.D. supervisor. Her lecture was then followed by a small Q&A [...]
Let me start by saying that this is the first book I've ever read about feminism and equality, let alone these two topics in relation to science. I wasn't even aware that Inferior existed until I saw a couple of scicomm bloggers I follow on social media post about it. At first, I wasn't very [...]
First post of 2019! Horray! I've been reflecting the past two days on what I want to do career-wise moving forward into this new year, and who I want to be by the end of 2019. I wanted to share with you what I've been thinking of. Academic life This year will be my last [...]
The ease of connecting and reaching out to people around the world has drastically increased over the years with the rise of social media. One of the things that have grown along with social media is the ability for scientists to talk to the general public, or as I see it: the rise of science [...]
[Sidenote: I didn't realize how much I was holding onto. This post is a lot longer and more personal than my ones before, but I guess it's good for me to think about this subject and my personal experience with it] Growing up as the first born child of an immigrant family, expectations for me [...]
I recently looked at my personal blog and saw that I had an unpublished blog post there that contained a bunch of screenshots and had only one sentence incomplete sentence: "like damn it. why did my gene have to be so awesome and conserved?????" I thought it may be more relevant placing this entry here [...]
I haven't had much group work experience during my undergrad studies so far. Disregarding lab partner work, there was really only two instances of group work I can think of, and those moments were back in my first year. The first one a group research and presentation (on peroxisomes), and the second instance was just [...]
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Noemi’s Corner 