Hello everyone! My name is Nehal Chakraborty and I am a senior neuroscience major on the pre-medicine track. Through CUTF, I’m working on a project to create learning materials for Foundations Biology 1 students. I am currently working as a UTA under the guidance of Dr. Linda O’Reilly and creating review materials to help students…
Category: Chancellor’s Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship
Curtain Rise, Class in Session
I clearly remember the day I came up with my project topic. Or, to be more accurate, the night I came up with my project topic. Not everyone my age actively listens to opera. But I was brought up in a very classically musical household, and I still thoroughly enjoy it. After moving to Pittsburgh…
Learning Through Teaching
This fellowship experience is not my first time working with Dr. Barry. In fact, I’ve been his TA twice before, once for this same class (Statics) and once for Introduction to Thermodynamics. Before ever working with Dr. Barry, I was his student in Statics and then again the following spring in both Thermo and Circuits….
CUTF Introduction: Griffin Hurt
Last fall, I started my education at the University of Pittsburgh pursuing a degree in computer science, and one of the first courses I took was CMPINF 0010: Big Ideas in Computing and Information. The course is a general education requirement in the School of Computing and Information and centers around some of the overarching…
CUTF Introduction: Michelle Spratt
Hello! My name is Michelle Spratt, and I am a senior majoring in Mathematical Biology and Neuroscience with minors in Chemistry and Africana Studies. I am from Hershey, Pennsylvania (although I’m not a big fan of chocolate!). In my free time, I enjoy crocheting and dancing. I’ve crocheted over 50 stuffed animals in the last…
CUTF Intro: Setting the Stage
“Hello! My name is Gigi Butkewitsch and I will be your TA this semester!” That’s how I introduced myself to the students in Women and Literature, the excellent class I have the privilege of “TAing” for this semester. After taking this class with Dr. Brenda Whitney during my second semester, I knew it was the…
Seeing the Light: CUTF Introduction
Hi! My name is Lia, and I am a senior neuroscience major with minors in chemistry and statistics. I’m from the Philadelphia area and have five older siblings and eight nieces and nephews! My oldest niece is almost sixteen. Once I graduate this April (2024), I intend to enter a research PhD program in neuroscience,…
CUTF – MATLAB for Statics 1
Hello! My name is Natan Herzog and I’m a senior BPhil Candidate majoring in Engineering Science with a minor in Physics and certificates in both Sustainability and Innovation, Product Design, and Entrepreneurship. This semester, I am working with Dr. Matthew Barry in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS) to develop a supplemental…
Imagining Macromolecules
Hi everyone! My name is Nehal Chakraborty. I’m a native of Northern Virginia and came to Pitt to study Neuroscience on a Pre-Med track. I also minor in English Literature and Chemistry, and have a certificate in Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. Through the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship, I am working with Dr. Linda O’Reilly to…
A Bittersweet Ending
Over the semester, I have taken great joy in seeing the development of not only students, but myself, in our discussions of global cinema and horror. When I began the CUTF, my expectation was to lead discussions in horror, specifically for two units: trauma & violence (with the films Smile and Possessor) and taboo sexualities…