My biggest strategy for making people understand my research is to avoid industry jargon. I already have some experience with this when people ask me about what my research is. When doing biomedical research as I am, it’s very easy to start using big words that I know what they mean but other people who…
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My Brackenridge Cohort
This is my second year doing the Brackenridge Fellowship and I am continuously impressed with the projects that my peers are completing. Whether it is a historical research project, or a STEM project it never ceases to amaze me how great of ideas that people have when they apply to the Brackenridge Fellowship. I am…
Brackenridge Introductions
Hi everyone! My name is Chris and I am a rising senior at Pitt. I am a history major and I am taking pre med classes. My goal is to become a trauma surgeon eventually. This summer, I am working in the Vascular Medicine Institute on a project that focuses on a potentially new treatment…
Brackenridge Reflection
The biggest thing that I learned this summer was that research is not just completed in the lab. Before the Fellowship, when I thought about what research was I mostly just thought about conducting research in a lab. Obviously, this is still the case with some projects. For example, one of my friends from the…
Communicating Our Research
Being able to effectively communicate your research to audiences not within your field is one of the most important aspects of research. Most people who come across your study likely will not be in your field and, in order for your study to have credibility, it is important for you to be able to show…
Working With Others
There are a lot of very interesting projects in this fellowship that I am very interested to hear about as the fellowship goes on. After getting to know some of the people and their projects through the introduction posts as well as the breakout room discussions, I can tell that there are going to be…
Chris Katyal: Examining the Effect of Social Media on Public Perception of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hi everyone! My name is Chris Katyal and I am a history major on a pre-med track. My goals are to go to medical school after my time at Pitt. I really think that this fellowship will help me in two main ways. First, I will have a great thing to put on my CV…