Throughout my undergraduate research career, I have found that there has always been a specific emphasis on presentation. I took a class called Speaking of Science, in which we had to practice presenting the same research project to various audiences. I find that a lot of what we learned in that class connects to what…
Author: akshithamaddula
My Cohort: HSRF 2022
I think that something unique about the 10 of us in HSRF is that we did not necessarily apply to the HSRF. I applied to the Brackenridge Fellowship, expecting to be surrounded by majors ranging from psychology to neuroscience to history and to art. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity I encounter in…
A mission to solve the opioid epidemic – Akshitha Maddula’s HSRF 2022 Introduction
Hi everyone! My name is Akshitha Maddula and I am a rising senior at Pitt. What I am working on for my HSRF fellowship is a project that builds on recent discoveries I have made in my lab during my previous time there as an undergrad. I am investigating whether the inhibition of estrogen will…