Forty-four undergraduates earned a 2024 Brackenridge Fellowship, one of the University of Pittsburgh’s most prestigious awards. Recipients earn funding to conduct independent research, scholarship or creative work under the guidance of a Pitt faculty mentor.
- Zain Adamo, a film and media studies major in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences — “Samira's Choice”
- Donovan Allen, a neuroscience and English literature major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Narratives and Counternarratives: The Place of Black Literature in the American Canon”
- Blayne Becker, a psychology major in the Dietrich School — “The History of the LGBTQ+ Community in Psychology”
- Su bin An, a psychology major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Effect of Caregivers’ Stress on Social Stress of Adolescents at High-Risk for Psychosis”
- Adalgisa Butkewitsch, an English literature and marketing major in the Dietrich School — “‘Oventuring’ Into Film: How a Short Film Can Further Unite Pitt’s Young Artists
- Olivia Carson, an environmental science major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Polyploid Population Establishment and Bioremediation Potential in Duckweed"
- Katelyn Chen, a biology and Spanish major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Atherosclerosis and apoC3: Investigating Unexpected Triglyceride Output in Absence of apoC3”
- Dev Chopra, a psychology major in the Dietrich School — “Exploring the Associations Between Peer Rejection, Parent Social Support, and Online-Only Friendships in LGBTQ+ Adolescents”
- Angel Cramer, a history major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Italian Fascism and the American Dream: The National Politics of Pittsburgh's Italian American Prominenti, 1918-1941”
- Luciana De Jesus, a classics and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Writing as Recovery and Change in Classical Ballet”
- Yuntian Deng, a psychology major in the Dietrich School — “Exploring the Impact of Rumination on the Efficacy of Self-Affirmation”
- Laura Dvorkin, a politics and philosophy major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Impacts of Platform Law and Corporate Governance on Free Speech: An Investigation Toward Regulatory Action”
- Hanna Enos, a psychology major in the Dietrich School — “Exploring Parent-Toddler Money Talk During Pretend Grocery Shopping”
- Isabella Falo, a psychology major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Investigating the Effect of Victimization on Executive Functioning”
- Claudia Frankfurth, a psychology and economics major in the Dietrich School — “The Impact of Trait Negative Affectivity on Suicidal Ideation Through Quality of Interactions in Romantic Relationships”
- Isaac Gamwo, a psychology major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Proportion of Pain Using Painimation”
- Akash Gundagathi, a molecular biology major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Temporal Engineering of Embryoid Development”
- Edha Gupta, a neuroscience major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Links between Racial Discrimination and Stress-Control Brain Pathways”
- Jaydep Halder, a microbiology and sociology major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Potency of New-Generation Dual Inhibitor Antibiotics Against Antimicrobial-Resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilm”
- Shane Hansen, a chemistry and neurolinguistics major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Understanding the Neurolinguistic Processing of Nonbinary Pronouns in First and Second Languages: A Research Proposal”
- Grace Johnson, an English literature and fiction writing major in the Dietrich School — “Dissecting the Victorian Supernatural: Ghost Stories of the 19th Century”
- Angel Joseph, a film and media studies major in the Dietrich School — “Sex, Love and Bisexuals: Why Hindi Web Series Love Bisexuality”
- Shaoyi Liu, a neuroscience major in the Dietrich School — “Investigating Learning-induced Reshaping in Neuronal and Muscular Activity”
- Campbell Martinez, a psychology and anthropology major in the Dietrich School — “A Qualitative Analysis of Experiences of Suicidal LGBTQ+ Adolescents and Adolescents of Color”
- Chloe Merino, a biochemistry and anthropology major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Study of the role of mechanics in neural cell rearrangement in Xenopus laevis”
- Sanjana Murthy, a biology and anthropology major in the Dietrich School — “Menstrual Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among the Indigenous Tribal Groups of Nagarahole and Bandipur National Parks of Karnataka, India”
- Mrudul Nagapurkar, a neuroscience major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Circadian Variations in Psychomotor Vigilance Performance in Adolescents”
- Al Nie, a neuroscience major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Intranasal Neuropeptide Y Y1 Receptor Agonist for the Treatment of Postsurgical Pain”
- Naiya Patel, a neuroscience major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Race, Preeclampsia, and Cognitive Decline”
- Kayleigh Phillips, a geology major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Unraveling Poison Ivy's Response to Climate Change: A Historical Analysis of Toxicity”
- Abhinav Pillai, a neuroscience major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Patients with Brain Metastases from NPC Cancers”
- Phillip Santos, a molecular biology major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Characterizing the Developmental Mechanism of the Ectoderm and Mesoderm in the HeX-Embryoid Model”
- Abhay Sheeri, a molecular biology major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Novel immunotherapy-radiation (anti-db-PDL1-IL-15) treatment improves response rates in head and neck cancer”
- Felicia Shen, a psychology major in the Dietrich School — “Exploring Parent-Child Conversations about Money in Early Childhood”
- Ethan Simpkins, a physics and mathematics major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Using Machine Learning to Detect Antimatter at Belle II”
- Evan Sun, a molecular biology major in the Dietrich School — “Gene Regulation: Flies, Sunshine, and Silencers”
- Joel Turner, an economics and history major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Assessing the Economic Motivations Behind the Implementation of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974”
- Emma Whittaker, an anthropology and museum studies major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “On the Mend: Reimagining the Responsible Patronage of Gee's Bend Quilts”
- Stephanie Yau, a neuroscience major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “Expansion Microscopy of Schizophrenia Prefrontal Cortex Synapses”
- Casey Yin, a neuroscience and studio arts major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College — “The Distortion of Our Bodies for Beauty”
For the full list of winners you can read the article on PittWire.