West Long Branch, NJ – (October 16, 2013) Monmouth University School of Science students gained valuable work experience this summer interning at unique locations outside of New Jersey borders. The internship positions ranged from a business applications developer in Hershey, Pennsylvania, to a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Oregon State University.

Jessica Kozma (Beachwood, NJ), mathematics and computer science major, interned at The Hershey Company where her responsibilities included altering existing web code to enhance the user experience in addition to creating her own code to fix any problems that were taking place. "I also analyzed information I collected regarding the online programs and came up with statistics on what the users' opinions were and presented that to the lead developer," said Kozma. "The job I performed required statistics knowledge as well as knowledge on different computer languages."

Patrick Fedick (Passaic, NJ), chemistry major, participated in a 10 week summer research program through MassNanoTech at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The program included a $4000 stipend and ran from May 28 to August 3. "I worked in Dr. Richard Vachet's lab as well as spent a good amount of time in Dr. Vincent Rotello's lab," said Fedick. "The title of my lecture presentation was 'Using Mass Spectrometry to Monitor Nanoparticles in Complex Biological Systems'." More information regarding this project can be found at: http://www.umass.edu/massnanotech/SURE_2013_projects.htm.