Science Progress Interns
Past Interns
Vivian Cheng is a rising junior at Cornell University, where she studies Biology & Society with a concentration in Public Policy. She interned at the American Association for the Advancement of Science last summer with the Program on Scientific Freedom, Responsibility & Law. She not only enhanced her interest in science policy, but also fell in love with D.C. Vivian is an editor and writer for The Triple Helix, an undergraduate science, society, and law journal at Cornell, and an Executive Production Editor of The Triple Helix, Inc. She is also the Executive Managing Editor of the Campus Progress publication, The Cornell Progressive. When she’s not busy writing she helps organize fundraising events as the President of STARS, Cornell’s genocide-awareness organization.
Tristan Fowler is a senior journalism major at Ithaca College and will be spending the fall semester with Science Progress. He was the Managing Editor of The Ithacan, Ithaca College’s student newspaper, the Advertising and Public Relations Director for the Residence Hall Association and spent his sophomore year helping first-year students adjust to college as a Resident Assistant. Originally from Chittenango, NY (the birthplace of L. Frank Baum), he was bit by the travel bug while studying travel writing in London this summer and is now looking for adventure around the corner or around the world. After graduation, Tristan hopes to travel to China to teach English and practice Mandarin, or spend a summer backpacking and blogging through Europe, or developing sustainable practices in South America.
Jonathan Pfeiffer is an intern for Science Progress. Originally from Bullhead City, Arizona, he is in his fourth year of a joint undergraduate degree program, Science for Humane Globalism, at California Lutheran University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously, he has worked as an Engineering Aid for the U.S. Department of the Interior, a science journalist for the Journal of Young Investigators, and an intern for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
Sameer Yousuf is an intern for Science Progress. He hails from Fairfax, Virginia and recently graduated from the University of Virginia where he studied aerospace engineering. His interests include neuroethics, on which he wrote an undergraduate thesis entitled Legal and Ethical Implications of fMRI Lie Detectors, with the help of Science Progress Editor-In-Chief Jonathan Moreno.
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Adil Ahmed is a rising senior at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a huge fan of all things New Jersey-related, despite the player-hating by everyone who is not from the state. At school, he dives into all the political happenings on campus from academic reform, to pressing the university for ethical expansion in Harlem, to moderating and facilitating dialogue in debates about the Middle East between all “warring” factions. He also enjoys all things community-building-related and works on issues that cut across inter-cultural, inter-faith, and political lines. While he hates conforming to South Asian stereotypes, it should not be a surprise that he thoroughly enjoys science and its various technological applications. He has written about gene therapy for the Columbia Journal of Bio-ethics and strongly believes the ideas which drive scientific development can improve American jobs, healthcare, education, infrastructure, and the creation of larger and thinner plasma televisions. Fittingly, its with mindset he came to work for Science Progress, a home away from home.
Jennifer Nelson is a rising senior at MIT, studying Biology and Applied International Studies. Ever since she spent last summer in Paris, she realized that political and scientific issues extend far beyond one country’s borders, and she has since dedicated her scientific studies to learning how science and technology can be used to better the lives of everyday citizens all around the world. She therefore loves to travel and learn new languages. In her spare time (if such exists), she is an EMT on MIT’s student-run ambulance, she does tae kwon do, and she hopes to learn how to paint.
