In the Lab: The Catalyst for Research is English
A lab worker uncovers that cultural and language barriers can be major inhibitors for internationally born scientists within the research-dominant United States.
Author: Hikari Tanaka
Hikari Tanaka (Table Writer) is a rising junior double majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior and English who tries to stay on top of a thousand different projects while simultaneously procrastinating on YouTube. She likes playing music as well as dabbling in mashing songs, and finds sounds, as a general concept, to be highly weird. In addition to music, she is interested in all science (including pseudoscience) and stories about people and their impossible lives. She hopes that she can somehow combine her love of science with writing. Inspiration is drawn from Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Erin Morgenstern, and how the 3 p.m. sky looks down dormitory hallways. This summer she will be working in a neuroscience lab for a research program at Rutgers University.
In The Lab: The Researcher’s Fallacy
As membrane after membrane fails to react, the inherent risk and patience demanded by a research career becomes more evident.
In the Lab: Mistakes, Research Creatures and (No) Results
In this new series, a writer embarks on a summer of self-discovery through science, as she tries to figure out if she even likes lab research or not.