Exciting internships for Poly student, alumni

A SUNY Poly student a recent graduate leveraged their experience at SUNY Poly to secure exciting summer internships with the help of SUNY Poly faculty and staff.

Ana Segarceanu, a rising SUNY Poly senior undergraduate, interned with Stat Peel, Ltd. in Glarus, Switzerland this summer. She expanded on her occupational health and safety training on the Brenner Research Team as she worked with Stat Peel to develop and assess instruments for detecting airborne nanoparticulates in work environments. During her 14-week internship, Ana put her training in nano health and safety to use as she contributed to advancing the state of the science in occupational exposure assessment for the nanotechnology workforce.

Aleksandr (Sasha) Filippov, a recent SUNY Poly graduate, who received a Bachelor of Science in Nanoscale Engineering, interned with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this summer in Silver Spring, MD. He was a Fellow in the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education’s (ORISE) Research Participation Program, managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) and worked with the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality’s Science Staff within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. As an ORISE Fellow, Sasha contributed to ongoing efforts to develop nanoscale analytical methods using enhanced dark field microscopy and hyperspectral imaging (EDFM-HSI) and Raman spectroscopy. This fall, he begins a PhD program in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences, part of the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA.