A major component of the Brackenridge Fellowship is learning how to describe our research to individuals studying outside our field. This is meant to teach us how to cater our projects to audiences. This is a great skill to have, but it can be quite challenging to learn how to stray away from the laboratory…
Tag: Research Fellowship
My Brackenridge Cohort 2022
Coming into my second year participating in the Brackenridge Fellowship, I knew I could expect to learn about all sorts of research projects running in equally diverse fields across the university. The fellowship emphasizes research of an interdisciplinary nature, and this is exemplified not only through individual projects that cross academic boundaries but also through…
Health Sciences: My Cohort – Abhay Sheeri
As we are all settling into our respective projects, one thing that I can assert for certain is the value of the community of fellow undergraduate researchers in the Health Sciences Research Fellowship (HSRF). Upon applying for this fellowship, I heavily anticipated that the nature of our discussions, while still pertaining to the health sciences,…
Ingenuity through Interdisciplinarity
One of the key tenets of the Brackenridge Fellowship is interdisciplinarity, relating students from different fields and connecting their various ways of study to one another in order to create a supportive and diverse community of researchers. Since applying I have looked at this integrative setting as an ideal place to conduct research and have…
Building Bridges Through HSRF
The Health Science Research Fellowship experience thus far has been spectacular! Through group meetings provided through HSRF, I have had the privilege to meet and chat with other recipients which have given me an inside understanding of specific projects as well as a broader insight into the exploration and diversity of research being conducted across…
Brackenridge: My Cohort and Research Exploration
The Brackenridge Fellowship presents me with a very unique opportunity to learn from and grow with students across a wide variety of disciplines. In order to guide our development, we were split into different groups, or cohorts, to build stronger relationships this summer. Through my cohort, I hope to discover different ways of developing and…
An Interdisciplinary Community: The Brackenridge Fellowship
The multitude of disciplines represented in the Brackenridge Fellowship community has led to fascinating discussions and wonderful learning opportunities. Many of our projects are drastically different from each other’s in terms of subject matter, research method, and motivation. However, we all have one commonality: a passion for research. Through the Brackenridge Fellowship program, I have…
My Brackenridge Cohort
This is my second year doing the Brackenridge Fellowship and I am continuously impressed with the projects that my peers are completing. Whether it is a historical research project, or a STEM project it never ceases to amaze me how great of ideas that people have when they apply to the Brackenridge Fellowship. I am…
Settling into the Summer with HSRF – Julia Wu
It’s been roughly a month into the HSRF, and I can safely say that I have already learned a lot from the program and my HSRF peers! I came into HSRF eager to further my knowledge and passion in research and learn about the amazing projects my fellow peers are working on. I believe it’s…
Brackenridge Introduction: Sivan Lurie
Hello everyone! My name is Sivan Lurie. I am entering my fourth year as an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh pursuing a major in Psychology and minoring in Applied Statistics, Classics, and Italian. Throughout my time at Pitt I have joined several student organizations and have had many amazing experiences! I have had…