by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Joe “As a junior at Northwestern, I knew I wanted to get involved in research within the computer science department but wasn’t quite sure how to start. OUR and the supportive faculty at Northwestern fostered that interest, and now I’m able to explore new...
by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Alex Alex started her journey with research using a Weinberg Summer Grant, which she took with her to a clinical pharmacology department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. This led her to start at a new lab at Feinberg– bridging their interests in...
by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Chris Chris was our Circumnavigator winner in 2019! Check out what he said about the opportunity and how it continued to impact him, even now after the trip has long been over! “After my four years at NU, I can say with confidence that the Circumnavigator’s...
by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Debbie-Marie Debbie-Marie was awarded an Academic Year URG from the OUR in the fall and produced a podcast centering Black horror and fiction as it relates to different periods in American history. Debbie-Marie cites her inspiration from taking a literature class in...
by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Andrew Andrew first got involved with his lab in January 2020 after spending his fall quarter meeting with different physics professors. Here’s what Andrew had to say about how his project transitioned once it became clear that conducting the work in-person was...
by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Diamond Diamond was able to turn her love for Japanese and video games into a research project of her own creation. Diamond said, “All I’ve done is like, I like these games, I like Japanese and that’s led me…to having fun with this…I would have to...
by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Kevin Kevin first got involved with his lab in January 2020. Here’s what Kevin had to say about how he got started with his lab and then what that work looked like once going in-person was no longer a possibility. He said, “I got involved with the Choi Lab...
by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Zach Zach spent his summer working on developing a method book for the snare drum. Zach said that his inspiration initially came from a class on percussion pedagogy and diving deep into studying nearly every method book for percussion. He said, “As a part of the...
by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Rayna Rayna published a long form article in The Washington Post centering her research on COVID-19’s impacts on students in China, specifically when it came to taking gaokao, the college entrance exam. Rayna said, “Even though I was brought up in...
by urg_admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Student Feature
Joyce Joyce decided to use a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to write a play highlighting women’s stories of migration in modern China. In starting the project, Joyce said, “I wasn’t planning to do my own research when I first met Peter in an advising...
