As part of the prompt for this week’s blog post, we were instructed to create a profile on Pitt Commons as a first step to connecting with other Brackenridge alumni who have similar interests, career paths, or academic majors. I reached out to an alum who studied Philosophy and German as an undergrad and ended…

We’ve talked a lot about presenting research here at the Brackenridge. Unsurprisingly, it’s really difficult. I remember a couple weeks ago sitting down with my family for dinner (one of the nicer aspects of quarantine, to be sure) where I was asked what I had done that day for my research project. The question was…

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…