This summer I’m working on an interdisciplinary team of four students. There are two computer science students, one bioengineering student, and one business student. Their names are Jason, Bell, and Daley! These past few weeks have given me the opportunity to learn a lot about their personalities, how they learn, and what their thought process…
Tag: Research Fellowship
Interdisciplinary research!
As a Brackenridge Fellowship member, I am eagerly looking forward to the valuable learning opportunities that await me this summer. One aspect I am particularly excited about is gaining insight into the research projects of my fellow recipients. Their diverse methodologies, stemming from their unique disciplinary backgrounds, will greatly enhance my understanding of various research…
Megan Gauger: My Cohort
This week during our fellowship meeting, we were given the chance to get to know our new cohorts through a campus scavenger hunt! Exploring campus with my cohort was a great way to get to know them as it gave us a chance to talk about our projects, our experience with research, and what we…
Learning about new research from my peers!
As a Brackenridge fellow this summer, I hope to learn from the strategies of other researchers to guide and strengthen my own research. Hearing from other students about the topics and challenges they are researching helps put the research I am working towards in a wider context, and also provides me with the opportunity to…
The Start of My Journey Through Brackenridge
Hello! My name is Niharika Welling, and I am part of the Brackenridge summer fellowship program. Today, I wanted to introduce myself and share my research project. I am a rising sophomore conducting research in a Cell Biology Lab affiliated with the Swanson School of Engineering, under the guidance of Dr. Partha Roy and Pooja…
Welcome to My Brackenridge Story!
My name is Roey Beniluz, and I am a rising senior studying Neuroscience with a minor in Chemistry. I live in East Brunswick, New Jersey. I love to travel, learn languages, and spend time outdoors. According to data from the US census, the population of adults age 65+ grew by 34.2% during the past decade….
SHURE-Grid Introduction: Kimberly Chen
For this blog post, introduce yourself to the group. Answer the following questions and include any other information you would like to share about yourself. Hi everyone, my name is Kimberly Chen and I am participating in the Shure-Grid research fellowship. This is a brand new program that Pitt is offering this summer in partnership…
Brackenridge Introduction: Megan Gauger
Hi! My name is Megan Gauger and I am a research technician at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Section of Botany. I am also a rising junior in the environmental science program here at Pitt! It is an honor to be apart of the 2023 Brackenridge Fellowship. My mentor is Mason Heberling from the…
Finishing the CURF & A Sneak Peak into My Work!
Me after finishing my paper!! My Process: Conducting research can definitely be challenging and intimidating at times! I found that the most difficult part for me was knowing where to begin. Doing an independent research assignment for the first is daunting and figuring out where to start is challenging. In times of feeling overwhelmed and…
CURF 3: Final Reflections of the Semester
Over the course of the semester, my understanding of the research process changed quite a bit. Last spring, it appeared that my experiments were more successful on average. However, looking back, this is not completely true. Working with fewer variables and simpler mechanisms, my previous data looks better, and that was on purpose. Instead of…