Sep. 6, 2024 -- While some students spend their summer vacations lifeguarding at the pool, mowing lawns or bussing tables in local restaurants, Heights High senior Olivia Bruening spent hers analyzing how “fascicles merged and diverged within the nerve.” Olivia was one of two teens from the Cleveland area to intern at the Human Fusions Institute of Case Western Reserve University, where she worked under Dr. Dustin Tyler in the Research Immersion in Brain, Spinal Cord, and Peripheral Nerves program.