Post #1
Dates: 6/10/15 – 6/12/15
Activities: faculty page design, pipetting.
Technical Information: used WordPress to start on the
faculty page.
Reflection: I arrived at Longwood University and met Dr.
Franssen, her husband, and the two other research students that were working on
the project with them. Most of my time here will be spent doing little projects
that Dr. Franssen doesn’t really have time for. If I wasn’t doing this
internship, she probably wouldn't have gotten a faculty page done easily and
quickly. This internship will be a good experience for me if I want to continue
to pursue a career in psychology.
For the majority of the week, I started on the faculty page
for Dr. Franssen using the Longwood blog platform with WordPress. It was
difficult to use at first since this was my first time using it. The first few
days was mainly just me playing around with the different widgets and planning
the outline for the website. Near the end of the week, I was given the
opportunity to learn how to pipette. Pipetting is using a tool called a pipette
to transport a specifically measured volume of liquid to another area. At first
I was nervous, thinking I’d mess it up but after a few tries I started to like
it. It was fun to do and an easy way to move a certain amount of liquid from
one place to another.
Dr. Franssen is a psychology professor who is running a
research experiment on stress. She has collected spit samples from her students
before exams and then another time during exams. She is examining these samples
for different stress hormones: cortisol, dhea (dehydroepiandrosterone), and
alpha amylase. I’ll be working mainly with Dr. Franssen and her research
student, Ri’Shawn and I will be helping input the data and create the patient
profiles sheet. I will also be creating a faculty page for Dr. Franssen and
another page for a new minor she is creating.
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