I’ve been enjoying the interdisciplinary nature of the Brackenridge seminars in general — I like learning new things as I listen to other people talk about their research — but the Ideathon project took that interdisciplinary element to the next level. Our Ideathon group was genuinely diverse, with scientists like Hilary, social science students like…
Author: emilywolfe
Connecting the Dots
Right now, I’m working out on figuring out where I want to go post-undergrad: skip grad school? M.A.? M.F.A.? M.L.S? It’s a decision I need to make sooner rather than later (hopefully, sometime in the next year), but there are so many potential paths that I’m trying to talk to people in a number of…
“Small” Research and the Big Picture
There are a few different challenges to communicating research to a general audience, and they change depending on the type of research you’re conducting. My guess would be that when it comes to scientific research, it’s easier to explain why your research is important than exactly how it works. With humanities-centric research like my own,…
My Cohort: History in the Making
As I start making progress with my own research, I’ve really loved reading about the projects others are working on. Even within my own cohort, there’s an amazing diversity of topics, and I’m glad I’ll get to read and hear more about them over the course of the summer. I come from the humanities, and…
Digging Through World War II-Era Student Newspapers
Last year, I got really into going through old newspapers and yearbooks. It started as a blog I was writing for our student newspaper here at Pitt, digging through old issues of the newspaper and retelling some of the stories I found there. Now I’m getting the chance to do a larger version of a…
The More Things Change…
Hey there! I’m Emily Wolfe, and I’m currently a sophomore at Pitt. Like a lot of students, I got to Pitt with a general idea of what I want to study, but no real specifics. I initially applied as a prospective linguistics major. By the time I started class my first semester, I had decided…