by Celina Dietzel '17

Knox College student Emily Corwin-Renner '17 was awarded a DAAD scholarship to complete a RISE internship in Berlin, Germany, where she worked in Berlin's top research hospital.

The Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE Germany) program is highly competitive, and Knox students have been accepted to it every year since 2013.

"There's been a tradition, basically. The program keeps getting more competitive, and [Knox students] keep getting in," Corwin-Renner said.

DAAD (The German Academic Exchange Service) scholarships are funded by the German national agency for the support of international academic cooperation. They are dedicated to providing financial aid and forging relationships between German and North American researchers.

Corwin-Renner worked as an assistant to Ph.D. students at the Charité Hospital during the summer of 2016. A neuroscience and psychology double major, she helped with research on visual processing, and to what extent people are able to take in stimuli from both eyes at the same time.

"I learned a lot about what it's like to be a scientist in the every day," she said.

In addition to the DAAD scholarship, Corwin-Renner received a scholarship from the Eleanor Stellyes Center for Global Studies to help pay for airfare.

After graduating from Knox, Corwin-Renner plans to continue her studies in cognitive neuroscience, and more specifically, how thoughts and emotion interact in the brain.