SOLO PROJECTS: Trail Town Assets and Business Corridor – My work for the business corridor consisted of gathering additional assets for Connellsville that did not appear on the Fall 2021 asset map. Some of these places include additional eateries, a bakery, historic places to see, and shopping outlets. To gather an idea of what Connellsville…
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FCCT Internship Post 2!
Since my last post, I have been working on a number of projects to help the Fayette County Cultural Trust. My most prominent project is working on cataloging GAP and C&O Trail town assets to compare with Connellsville. This is to highlight any areas / businesses the town may want to look into developing to…
My CUTF: Happy Turkey Day, everybody!
In the spirit of my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, I would like to express gratitude for this fellowship experience. Thanksgiving is unequivocally my favorite holiday. Beyond watching my Detroit Lions lose, I also get the opportunity to give back and appreciate what I’ve been given. With this being my final blog post for this semester, it’s…
Seeing Students Grow!
Time flies when you’re teaching Spanish 🙂 At this point, we are now squarely in the controlled chaos that is a college semester. Students are juggling classes, clubs, and in many cases like my own, work. From my perspective, both from the student side and teaching side, Pitt students have done an awesome job with…
CUTF Introduction: Medicine and Spanish really be-lung together
Hello everyone! My name is Amaan Rahman. I am one of the recipients of the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship this semester. I am a senior majoring in Spanish, and double minoring in Hindi and Chemistry. In the fall, I will be graduating and taking a gap semester before matriculating to medical school here at Pitt….
My Joyful Brackenridge
Last spring in class one day my professor and now faculty mentor Dr. Gregor Thum said “No good work can be done without joy”. It seemed like an offhand comment, but something about it was clearly brilliant. I wrote it down on a post-it note and quickly added it to the collection of quotes that…