My name is Jiri Palayekar and I am a rising senior double majoring in Information Science and Psychology! I am excited to be taking on my FHC Creative Arts project, which is centered around exploring and reimagining buildings tied to Pittsburgh’s queer history. For this project, I will be conducting research, taking photographs, and creatively…
Author: Jiri Palayekar
CURF #3: End of the semester!
When I first started at Dr Kuwajima’s lab, I had a basic understanding of what Dr Kuwajima’s research entailed. Before joining his lab, I emailed a few other researchers whose research I was interested in, so I had a basic understanding of what they were all researching, and I feel like this is an important…
CURF: Becoming a Researcher in the Kuwajima Lab
I had developed an interest in research in high school after I had taken a honors biology. My biology teacher would sometimes invite college students who had graduated from our high school to present whatever STEM related research they had done. I was impressed by how complex all their projects were and how they were…
CURF 1: Determining the Effect of Protein Prenylation on Retinal Ganglion Cell Death after Acute Retinal Injury
Hello! My name is Jiri Palayekar and I am a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh. As of right now, I have not decided on a major, but I plan to major in either Psychology or Biological Sciences. Something unique about me is that despite my STEM heavy interests, I am quite interested in storytelling and art….