ARL summer interns watch as a fellow tour mate becomes part of an experiment in the Mission Impact through Neuro-inspired Design, or MIND, Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The MIND Laboratory is an all-inclusive environment for neuroscience res...
ADELPHI, Md. (June 23, 2016) -- On the heels of the Army's birthday, a new generation of researchers toured the laboratory spaces they will call their home away from home for the summer.
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory recently wrapped up its annual two-day Summer Intern Tour, which took place at the Adelphi Laboratory Center and Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, two of the lab's major sites.
The tour provided a unique experience for the interns, allowing them to interact with scientists and engineers and their projects, providing a better overall picture of the work that ARL conducts in support of our Soldiers, and the work that these young, eager minds have a chance to be a part of.
Welcoming the interns on the first day, ARL's Military Deputy Col. Kevin Ellison said: "As I look across the room today, you are the future Army scientists and engineers. We as Warfighters cannot execute missions without the help of our civilian teammates. You are the ones that will make the Army successful for the next 241 years."
Interns received an overview of areas such as 3-D flexible hybrid electronics, network science, atmospheric science, spoken dialogue research for human-robot teams, remote control improvised explosive device detector development, energetics, advanced polymer processing, neuro-inspired design, cognitive assessment, simulation and engineering, and auditory research.
"It was a great experience," said Spencer Whitehead, who will be interning this summer in ARL's Computational and Information Sciences Directorate. "There were a lot of cool, interesting and meaningful projects with brilliant minds working on them."
For information on the various student and recent graduate programs offered at ARL, visit http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=2907.
For updates on ARL interns throughout the summer, check the ARL Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/usarmyresearchlab/.
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The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, which has the mission to ensure decisive overmatch for unified land operations to empower the Army, the joint Warfighter and our nation. RDECOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command.
For more information, visit www.arl.army.mil, follow @ArmyResearchLab on Twitter and follow the lab on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ArmyResearchLaboratory.
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