What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Ah, summer. The season offers a chance for even hard-working Harvard
undergraduates to get a bit of R&R—as in: research and more research.

Three current engineering sciences concentrators were kind enough to tell us about their experiences in the lab this past summer. We preserved their words verbatim but took a few liberties with the presentation.

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I’m working with Kit Parker. A lot of times when people suffer cardiac arrest or any kind of stress to the heart, the shape of the cells deform to different aspect ratios, so to speak, so I am going at that the other way and fi gur-ing out if we have “rectangles” of different lengths and widths, how does the composite of cell function change based upon those geometries? I strain cells to specifi c geometries—nothing too terribly difficult—but if I get this done in time it will offer a nice picture.

— CHI CHI

Pen Pals

Chimdimnma “Chi Chi” Esimai ’07 (Engineering Sciences, SB) participated in the Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) and worked with Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Kit Parker.

Geneva Trotter ’08 (Engineering Sciences, SB), also in PRISE, worked with Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Robert Wood.

Oluwarotimi “Rotimi” Okunade ’07 spent her summer in Pretoria, South Africa with Medicine in Need (MEND), a non-profit company started by faculty and students at HSEAS.