Through the SPARK program, Lauren and the other participants are working with Brookhaven National Laboratory’s National Synchrotron Light Source II.
June 26, 2019
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Take a moment today to meet Lauren, a Long Island high school student who is capturing and analyzing potentially world-changing data during her summer internship. Lauren shares her story and why she loves science in our video here from Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Lauren is working with experts at the Lab and other high school students who are serving as visiting researchers at the Lab’s world-renowned facilities in the Student Partnerships for Advanced Research and Knowledge (SPARK) program at the Lab this summer.
Through the SPARK program, Lauren and the other participants are working with Brookhaven National Laboratory’s National Synchrotron Light Source II, a $912 million piece of highly-specialized equipment that offers scientific and industrial researchers an array of beamlines with x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light to enable discoveries in clean and affordable energy (and much more!) The students conduct hypothesis-driven research working hand in hand with scientists at Brookhaven, just like Nobel Prize winners using the original National Synchrotron Light Source have done in years past.
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noBrFXvbDik
For more information on the SPARK program visit https://www.bnl.gov/education/static/spark.asp
AnneMarie Horowitz
AnneMarie Horowitz is the Chief of Staff for the Arctic Energy Office. She joined the Arctic Energy Office in May 2023. AnneMarie has been with the Energy Department since 2010, and was previously on the digital team of the Office of Public Affairs, where she managed digital projects and internal employee communications efforts. AnneMarie was the Digital Communications Manager from March 2023 - September 2023 for the Department of Health and Human Affairs' Public Education Campaign, We Can Do This, to share information about the COVID vaccine.
From 2015 - 2017 she served as the Special Advisor on workforce issues for Deputy Secretary of Energy Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall. She has also previously worked in the Under Secretary for Management and Performance and in the Office of Minority Economic Impact.
AnneMarie has a BA in Political Science from the University of Portland and a Masters of Government from Johns Hopkins University.