Now that my fellowship this summer is over, it’s interesting for me to look back on how I went into my project and how my perspective has shifted. This experience has been a wonderful one, and there are many things I have learned from it, and many ways i’ve changed over the summer. The biggest…
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Growing My Research Tree: A Brackenridge Reflection
As the summer ends, I am grateful to reflect on a rewarding summer of research in the Brackenridge Fellowship. My project studying the contemporary collection and display of quilts from Gee’s Bend, Alabama is only growing as I look forward to the fall semester. Thankfully, becoming a Brackenridge Fellow allowed me to understand my project…
From Healthcare to Dams – Reflecting on my SHURE-Grid Experience
Hi! It’s Karlynn again. I am now at the end of my summer research experience, and I have learned so much. I am currently pursuing a major in Digital Narrative and Interactive Design, a minor in Italian, and a certificate in Digital Media. With a schedule full of media, communication, and language-based classes, you can…
Unraveling Poison Ivy’s Response to Climate Change… and my Research Experience
Hi everyone! As the Brackenridge and MCSI summer programs come to a close, I’m going to take a look at the work I’ve done, what I’ve learned, and where I’m going. For those of you not scouring this blog for my original post and dutifully reading up on all of that, I’m Kayleigh Phillips, a…
SHURE-GRID Progress and New Found Knowledge
My name is Aidan and I have already written a SHURE-GRID blog detailing my original goal of being on this research team. The first use case being studied was a Ukraine power grid attack back in 2015. In short, Russian hackers attacked the power grid by inserting malware into emails which compromised the system. My…
Research, Development, and the Electric Grid: A SHURE-Grid Reflection
Through my time at Pitt, I have dabbled in the concepts of research and scholarly work within the academic classroom. However, through the SHURE-Grid program, I have finally been able to put those concepts into practice. A large part of this research and scholarly work, I have since learned, has simply been meeting and discussing…
Math Learning Through Routine-Brackenridge Reflection
As summer draws to a close and fall slowly approaches, I want to take the time to reflect on my journey participating in the Brackenridge Research Fellowship summer program. First, a brief introduction: my name is Felicia Shen and I am a rising senior with a Psychology major, an Applied Statistics minor, and a Children’s…
Breakers, Inverters, and the Infinite Bus: My SHURE-Grid Reflection
As the summer comes to an end and we approach our final presentation to the Idaho National Lab, taking a moment to sit down and reflect on the past two months is incredibly valuable (and gives me a nice break from PowerPoint). The past two weeks have been a whirlwind. Between wrapping up our final…
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…