We’re all three-weeks-in on the grand adventure of the 2020 Brackenridge Summer Research Fellowship, and I’m proud to belong to a cohort now calling itself the “Cannon Crew”! The entire fellowship will surely end up remiss if our cohort’s Ideathon proposal doesn’t also incorporate a topic with cannons… As a disclaimer, the lockdown-induced cabin fever…
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All Together Now: Cannon Crew
A major part of my initial interest in the Brackenridge program was the community it promised. An interdisciplinary group of bright undergraduates, with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all coming together to explore and share their individual interests. The level of curiosity and ambition I’ve seen these first few weeks has been motivating and inspiring, and…
My Cohort: The Cannon Crew Loves Research Too! 💣
Meet the Cannon Crew Over these first weeks of the Brackenridge Fellowship, as we all begin to settle into the groove of weekly seminars and research, I have had the opportunity to begin to get to know my fellow cohort members. I am part of the group mentored by Josh Cannon, so we quickly dubbed…
My Cohort
The main reason for my initial interest in this fellowship, and partly why I am so eager to begin working within my cohort, is the interdisciplinary nature of the Brackenridge fellowship. Not only is my project itself interdisciplinary, but my personal and professional interests are rather diverse as well, so this boundary-crossing aspect of the…
Learning from Others
I will sound like a broken record in expressing this but reading about the projects of others in the fellowship opened my eyes to the breadth of amazing research being conducted in myriad fields at our university. The Brackenridge fellowship provides an invaluable opportunity to interact with students in all disciplines, which I think helps…