Hi everyone! My name is Mrudul Nagapurkar, and I am a rising senior majoring in Neuroscience with a minor in Chemistry and certificates in Conceptual Foundations of Medicine and Global Health. I am very excited to be part of the Brackenridge Fellowship this summer and look forward to learning more about everyone’s projects and research…
Category: Research Fellowship
Suicide Prevention for Marginalized Youth- Brackenridge Intro
Hi! My name is Campbell Martinez and I am a rising senior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Psychology. I am so excited and grateful to be doing independent research this summer as a part of the Brackenridge fellowship! For my project I am focusing on suicidal adolescents (specifically LGBTQ+ adolescents and adolescents of…
Personality, Relationship Quality, and Suicide Risk- Brackenridge Introduction
Hi! My name is Claudia Frankfurth and I am a rising senior at the University of Pittsburgh. I am a psychology and economics major with a minor in law, criminal justice, and society. This summer, with the help of the Brackenridge Fellowship and my faculty mentor, Dr. Sarah Brown, I will be continuing my research…
Exploring postoperative pain and opioid use in advanced gynecologic cancer patients
Hello, my name is Ryan DiLello I am a junior bachelor of science in nursing honors student participating in the Brackenridge summer research fellowship. My project is titled “Influence of receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy on post operative pain and opioid use in women undergoing abdominal hysterectomy for advanced gynecologic cancer.” My research is examining whether chemotherapy…
Exploring Memory as Mess in a Mix-Media Poetry Collection
Hi! My name is Trish (she/her) and I’m a senior with one semester left. I am majoring in Psychology and Creative Writing (poetry track) and minoring in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. I’m a Forbes veteran so if you’re thinking hmm where do I recognize her from, it’s probably from seeing me work at Dunkin’…
Lights, Camera, Brackenridge!
Hello, my name is Gigi Butkewitsch and I am doing the Breckenridge Fellowship this summer! I am an upcoming senior here at Pitt! I am a double degree student earning a Business Degree in Marketing and an English Literature degree. My degrees converge in a great passion for film and filmmaking, a hobby I picked…
Brackenridge Scholar Investigates Discrimination and Stressor-evoked Activity within Proximal Stress-Control Brain Regions
This summer I am ressearching with Dr. Layla Banihashemi, who is an associate professor in the Psychiatry and Bioengineering departments at Pitt. She leads the Brain Body Stress Lab at the university, which studies the neural implications of early childhood adversity. This summer I am working with Dr. Banihashemi to investigate how different types of…
Neurogenesis following stroke: Health Sciences Research Fellowship Introduction
Hello everyone! My name is Kylie Wishneski and I am a rising junior majoring in bioengineering and pursuing minors in chemistry and neuroscience. I am thrilled to continue my research at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine as a Health Sciences Research fellow. Working under Dr. Mike Modo, my research focuses on the quantification of…
HSRF Introduction (Anvith Ramadugu) – Studying Cancer Immune Evasion Through Lysosomes
Hello everyone! I’m Anvith Ramadugu, a rising senior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in molecular biology with minors in applied statistics and chemistry. This summer, I’m thrilled to be part of the Health Science Research Fellowship (HSRF) and work in the Kiselyov Lab. Under the guidance of Dr. Kirill Kiselyov, my research focuses on…
Discovering a Future in Neuroscience
Hi everyone! My name is Mercy Akanmu, and I am so excited to have received the Health Sciences Fellowship this summer! My research is focused on neurogranin, a protein that helps regulate the development of our brain’s reward circuit. The reward circuit is a fascinating pathway that determines our responses to various stimuli (food, social…