HUC Virtual Research Internships 2023
Hosted by the Hemispheric University Consortium (HUC) and Universidad de los Andes, the third edition of the HUC Virtual Research Internships 2023 facilitated the scientific collaboration and international academic experiences among professors, researchers, and students from HUC universities across the continent. Below you will learn more about the students, professors, and researchers who participated in this program and their research projects.
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Paula Andrea Galindo Moreno
Universidad de los Andes
Allison Michelle Meynard Rubio
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Andrea Castro Jiménez
Universidad de Costa Rica
Carlos Florentino Gómez Ccapali
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Cristian Mata Salazar
Universidad de Costa Rica
Diana Sarai Paz Salinas
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Peru)
Diego Patricio Urzua Escobar
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Joaquin Antonio Diaz Javier
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Juan Manuel Arias Ortiz
Universidad de los Andes
Karen Cielo Cuadros Quispe
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Nicole Palacios
University of Miami
Hello, my name is Nicole Palacios and I am a pre-med Health Science major at the University of Miami. I applied for a HUC internship over the summer and was matched with Professor Victoria Bein for the topic of parenting stress. We discussed and analyzed various measures of parenting stress, and how child behavior affected these stress levels. My favorite part of this project was how I was able to work in both English and Spanish with students across different countries to translate stress measures. Overall, I enjoyed the experience and recommend it to anyone looking for a valuable research experience. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! Thank you and goodbye!
Reseda Ramkhelawan
University of the West Indies
Reseda Ramkhelawan recently graduated from The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. She interned for the Parenting Stress Project under Professor Victoria Bein, hosted by the Universidad Austral (Argentina). This internship consisted of Spanish-speaking nationals and despite the language barrier, she enjoyed the cultural exchange. She developed an appreciation for her fellow interns and the research process behind adapting the intended psychological instruments to be culturally sensitive and appropriate for the families being studied. The experience and being able to witness Professor Bein’s dedication to the field, has encouraged her to pursue her graduate research studies in psychology.
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Timothy Norris
University of Miami
So far this program has been great. The comments that follow are solely based on my experience with Teola Noel. Teola is a very motivated early career academic who is completing her PhD that focuses on disease risk in the pork production chain in Trinidad and Tobago. While she had little experience with geographic information systems (GIS) at the beginning of the internship, she learned quickly and we created a small collection of GIS datasets relevant to her work. Parts of this collection are visible on the University of Miami Geospatial Digitial Special Collections (GDSC) website at https://gdsc.idsc.miami.edu under the collection “Trinidad and Tobago Disease Risk.” Teola plans to continue working with the collection throughout the spring of 2024 and will be adding several more datasets to the collection as her work progresses. With what she learned through the internship she will be able to do this with minimal extra guidance (although we plan to meet as needed). As I understand it, this work helps her fulfill her research goals. From the perspective of GDSC, her work inspired new functionality for incorporating data from Opens Street Map (OSM) and brought issues such as embargo periods for data set publishing to the continued development work underway. I am also grateful for this opportunity to work with research in disciplines outside areas of my expertise and in geographical areas in Latin America. both the new functional requirements and interdisciplinary nature of the work help GDSC fulfill its mission. It has been wonderful working with Teola.
Ruth Iguiñiz Romero
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
It was a good experience and I will be willing to offer it next year.
Gonzalo Vargas
Universidad de los Andes
I’m grateful to HUC for creating this programme. Thanks to their interns’ efforts, we managed to interview 12 experts who gave us their opinions about the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and in Colombia. We plan to employ these interviews in a research article, once the remaining interviews (roughly the same number) are completed.
Felipe Yon
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
The experience has been quite good, and good progress in data analysis has been done, and Paula learned with step guidance the use of software and nuisances of morphometry in mosquitos.
Andreas Reiber
Universidad de los Andes
I was overwhelmed from the broad interest on this subject (…) The students have participated very actively, and the collaboration among all has been very fruitful. There is a lot of work that we can continue to develop, which is why the students have expressed their desire to continue with the project and the internships during the next semester in order to finish it
Cristina Guerra Giraldez
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
This was an excellent opportunity for interaction and exchange; my students also helped, and we gained more insights about our project.