I had a really great experience working on the Ideathon with my group, and it was really cool to see such driven students working on vastly different projects coming together to solve a problem. One thing that struck me most about this interdisciplinary research project was all the ideas my group was able to generate,…

While looking through Pitt Commons, I was excited to see how many alumni of the Brackenridge Fellowship (as well as Pitt alumni in general) are willing to support and serve as a role model for current students. It made me realize just how tight knit and supportive the Pitt community is! Someone who stood out…

Every research project in this Brackenridge Fellowship holds significance in our everyday life, and all of our projects are aimed at making the world around us a better place. That is why I find this fellowship so interesting- even though our projects are vastly different, we are all aiming to provide knowledge to solve real-life…

Before coming to Pitt, I quite frankly had no idea what research was, and the impact that research can have on the larger community. My initial impression of research was limited to scientific research- mainly the image of a scientist sitting in a lab with a flask full of chemicals. When I first started to…

Hi everyone! My name is Ella, and I am a rising senior majoring in Biological Sciences, minoring in Chemistry, and earning a certificate in the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. A fun fact about me is that I absolutely LOVE dogs, and I am currently staying with my parent’s one and a half-year old dog named…