This week marks the beginning of the end for the learning component of my ISSUP internship at UCI Applied Innovation, but the program is sure ending with a bang. On Monday, the ISSUP interns headed off to Disneyland, where we got a special behind-the-scenes tour of different aspects of the parks. At the on-site Disney corporate … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 5

Week 3 of the ISSUP program featured the first three of six site visits to companies across the Orange County area. Over the week, we visited Modulated Imaging, Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, and Edwards Lifesciences. Modulated Imaging, a startup spun out of UCI’s Beckman Laser Institute, is creating easy-to-use machines that help identify Diabetes patients at … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 4

Week 2 of my UCI Applied Innovation internship has just wrapped up; since I started a week early, and the first week was “Week 0”, I’m now done with the first month of my internships. This week, the Cove interns and I got to chat with some really incredible speakers from across industries. Tracy Kwiker’s … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 3

There were more exciting adventures this week at UCI Applied Innovation! One of the most notable trips we’ve taken so far was going to Calit2@UCI, an innovation center at UCI that allows people in the STEM field to build and test their products from concept to reality. One of the projects we got to try out was a … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 2

Friday marks the end of my second week at the two internships I’m tackling this summer, and the first week in which all of the ISSUP interns with UCI Applied Innovation were present. A great part of the ISSUP internship is that we get to explore the business and entrepreneurial ecosystem surrounding UCI. This week, we toured … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 1