Internship Topics

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a multi-disciplinary research institution. While internship assignments change from year to year, 2009 STAR participants can expect assignments similar to those offered in 2008 (below).

Biochemistry: Researched cartilage cell growth on carbon nanotube scaffold.

Biochemistry: Examined how proteins from different sources affect bone turnover rate.

Applied Physics: Used ultrawideband-radar tagging technologies to send and receive information such as diagnostics, position, attributes, identity, and chemical/biological data.

Astrophysics: Helped build the Axion Dark Matter Experiment to detect axion particles by their decay into microwave photons in the presence of an intense magnetic field.

Bioengineering: Analyzed a variety of samples from semiconductors to tissue cells using time-of-flight secondary-ion mass spectrometry to examine chemical composition and protein localization within tissue cells.

Chemistry and Materials Science: Captured carbon dioxide from the flue gas of a power generation plants using resin ion exchange beads.

Bioinformatics: Used computer programs like Visual Molecular Dynamics to characterize proteins with no known structure or substrate by comparing proteins that have known structures.

Bioinformatics: Used FASTA software analysis to run a blast search on a genome sequence to identify associated genes and protein structure.

Nuclear chemistry: Age-dated corals from the Hawaiian Islands using accelerator mass spectrometry.