Category: Blog Posts

By Halle Gibson As a graduate student in a STEM field, coursework and research can often feel overwhelming and take precedence in my life in terms of time commitment, effort, and mental capacity.  As an undergraduate student in engineering, I did not realize the importance of or how to set boundaries for a healthy work-life… Continue reading Research, Relax, Recharge

By Isha Krishna When I first arrived at the Montclare Lab, I wasn’t sure what to expect of myself. I had never been in a lab outside of my NYU Tandon undergraduate courses, and I was unsure of my ability to contribute to projects. After the first week or so of hand-holding and constant supervision… Continue reading Early Days in the Lab

By: Jessica Wong When I was young, I would come home after school and spend hours in my living room, captivated by the guppies in my fish tank. My mother and I had bought three red-yellow hybrid males and two silver females. Within a few months, there were around a hundred guppies with many colors… Continue reading My Steps Toward Science, Biomaterials & the Lab

Maggie Thompson My path to being interested in science did not start as young as some. I spent many years dreaming of becoming a writer or an investigative reporter, who would travel the world to write news stories. Yet, during my sophomore year of high school, after I took a few more science courses, I… Continue reading Academic Spark

Maria Kulapurathazhe The first day of school is something that I have always looked forward to for as long as I canremember. Catching up with friends during lunch, writing on the first page of a new notebook,trying not to look lost on the way to class – these are just some of the small things… Continue reading First Day

Sihan (Hannah) Jia I recently graduated from New York University – Tandon School of Engineering with a Master degree of biotechnology. During my time studying biotechnology, I learned to find my topics of interest and designed my own experiments. Every time I presented my research work, I gained many positive comments from my classmates and… Continue reading Protein Engineering Research Internship

By: Chengliang Liu In high school I was known to be a student who really enjoyed STEM classes. As the acting president of the Math Club of my high school, I developed a deep interest in applying mathematical modeling to predict ways in which the world would evolve. I feel grateful that math has opened… Continue reading The Solidified Path – Protein Engineering

By Aparajita Bhattacharya       Growing up, I was utterly fascinated with the inner workings of the living world. This fascination as well as curiosity led me to major in molecular biology during college. However, my senior year, I found that I lacked work experience in the field and didn’t know how my knowledge from… Continue reading My Journey to the Lab

By: Bonnie Lin   March 11 th , 2020: NYU announced that all classes and non-essential research will be conducted remotely as a precautionary measure for the COVID-19 issue that is getting worse. The sudden transition into remote instruction was and still is, met with several challenges. However, classes still managed to move forward with… Continue reading A (Not so Typical) Year of an Undergraduate Student

By: Jason Chen When I joined the Montclare lab for protein engineering and molecular design in the summer of 2020 (amidst a pandemic), I was eagerly expecting to be thrown into the wet lab world involving the prolific use of SDS-PAGE and the omnipresence of micropipette tips. Instead, I would find myself navigating a Unix… Continue reading Unexpected Computational Research