Summer internships 2018
The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing are pleased to announce that they are funding a number of undergraduate research internships throughout the summer of 2018.
These internships provide penultimate year students with an opportunity to collaborate with a member of academic staff on a research project for 8 weeks. They are awarded on a competitive basis to students who have shown a commitment to and aptitude for research during their studies.
To find out more about our student projects, visit their blogs by clicking on their names below.
| Student name | Undergraduate course | Project title |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering and the environment |
||
| Daniel Ingram |
BEng Aerospace Engineering, Astronautics and Space Technology | Rockets for outreach and education |
| Charlotte Marshall- Bailey |
BSc (Hons) Aerospace Engineering, Astronautics & Space Technology | Cansats for outreach and education |
| Kimberley Phillips | BSc (Hons) Geography | SHEDx The Beginning |
| Michael Anders | BSc (Hons) Software Engineering | What makes clickers work? And how can we make them better, perhaps without needing a "clicker"? |
| Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmacy | ||
| Rafeullah Amiri | BSc (Hons) Chemistry | 3D-printed devices for continuous-flow organic chemistry - A milli-fluidic reactor applied to the synthesis of heterocycles. |
| Yostina Ishak | BSc (Hons) Pharmacy | Dates as anti-cancer prevention drugs/cancer-therapy. |
| Ramla Hussein | BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical Science | Synthesis of fragrance molecules |
| Adrianna Zylka | BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical Science | Anti-Cancer Project: Synthesis of NQO1Substrates blog |
| Julianne Olagunju | BSc (Hons) Pharmacy | I like the sound of that": audio/video recording for teaching and feedback |
| Jonathan Blatchford | BSc (Hons) Pharmacy | Design of MyDispense software exercises to improve student understanding of pharmacy practice |
| Hasanin Al Sader | BSc (Hons) Pharmacy | The development of innovative tools to support pharmacy students in assessments based on applying knowledge |
| Life Sciences | ||
| Prince Adeleke | BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science | Validating a method of growing endothelial cells from whole blood |
| Sejal Bhagat | BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science | Validating a method of growing endothelial cells from whole blood |
| Ryan Seed | BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science | Development of DNA repair assays for the identification of abnormal DNA damage and repair patterns in leukaemia |
| Danielle Wilson | BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science | Understanding nicotinamide binding to enzymes from the azoreductase family |
| Georgia Wood | BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science | Investigating and optimising the ability of novel synthetics to inhibit and/or eliminate biofilms. |
| Tyla Rodwell Ogden | BSc (Hons) Pharmacology | Investigating and optimising the ability of novel synthetics to inhibit and/or eliminate biofilms. |
| Oriane Le Roy | BSc (Hon) Nutrition (Exercise and Health) | Developing activities for enhancing student recruitment and retention in Applied & Human Sciences and Biomolecular Sciences |
| Danait Ftsum | BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science | Developing activities for enhancing student recruitment and retention in Applied & Human Sciences and Biomolecular Sciences |
| Joshua Leon | BSc (Hons) Pharmacology | Identifying modifiers of nerve regeneration |
| Meron Mogos | BSc (Hons) Pharmacology | Identifying modifiers of nerve regeneration |
| Margaret Opoku | BSc (Hons) Pharmacology | How accurately can HIV seropositive patients assess their health-related quality of life? Validating a new Single Question measure. |
| Samira Nur | BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science | Influence of coding tandem repeat copy number variation on bacterial protein structure. |
Find out more about the evaluation of the impact of the internship scheme on the graduate outcomes from Cambridge Scholars Publishing and the University of Leicester journal.
