Yuhang Ji, Casey Li, and Lauren Steinbaum were among 32 students selected for Cal Energy Corps internships.
Launched in 2011, the Cal Energy Corps provides undergraduates with practical research and experiential-learning opportunities through internships with partner organizations across the academic, corporate and nonprofit sectors. Modeled on the Peace Corps, the program aims to engage Berkeley students tackling alternative energy, climate change and sustainability issues around the world.
Yuhang Ji
Yuhang, also known as Joanna, from Southern California, is a third-year Civil and Environmental Engineering major. She will be spending this summer at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Joanna became interested in environmental issues in high school, and is interested in applying her education to understanding human environmental impacts and finding solutions to current environmental issues. She is a curious person who enjoys exploring new things. In her free time, Joanna enjoys reading, movie-watching and chilling.
Casey Li
A Civil and Environmental Engineering major, Casey is interested in how the environment impacts societies, politics, and economics. Born in China, raised in New Zealand, and now completing her degree in the United States, Casey has had the privilege of living in cities acound the world and appreciates their differences in size, culture, and commitment to sustainability. This summer, she will be at the Chinese University of Hong Kong to work on urban climate change and energy flux changes. At Cal, she is an intern for the American Society of Civil Engineers and a structural analyst for Cal's Concrete Canoe team. During her free time, she enjoys reading, exploring new places, hiking, and fishing.
Lauren Steinbaum
Lauren is majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice. She will be working for 12 weeks with Waste Enterprisers in Kumasi, Ghana, turning waste from pit latrines into biodiesel. Lauren has a background in water and wastewater from her experiences working in Tanzania over the summer and at the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board for the past two and a half years. Excited to explore the relationship between water, sanitation, and energy, Lauren hopes to apply what she learns this summer to the research that she will pursue in graduate school next year.
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