Welcome back to PCUR! We are very excited to start the new year with some great posts starting this week, so check your email Tuesday morning for the first post of the academic year.
Top, from left to right: Rebecca Cho, Aishah Shahid, Angel Toasakul, and Stanley Stoutamire. Bottom, from left to right: Alison Fortenberry, Gabriel Ascoli, Shannon Yeow, and Haya Elamir.
Princeton Research Day is a campus-wide celebration of research and art from Princeton undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career staff. PRD is open to the public, and videos are online now! We hope you consider checking out the channel and voting for your favorite. PRD is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, and we are very excited to come together to showcase the new innovations, findings, and creative work of the Princeton community.
All PRD presenters submit a 3-minute video highlighting one story about their research or art. The videos are designed for broad audiences, demonstrating the importance of research accessibility. If you are local to the area, many presenters will also be talking about their work during our poster session on Thursday, May 8 in the Frist Campus Center from 12:00-1:00.
Many of our current PCURs at last fall’s first group meeting. Photo credit: Nicole Tacconi.
PCUR is paused during spring break, but when you’re not reading posts you might have missed during the busyness of the semester, consider applying to be a correspondent next year (or sharing the call with students you know that might be interested)!
Correspondents promote a culture of research and scholarship among undergraduates, support students through all stages of research, demystify the research process, and empower more students to get involved! We’re especially looking for students interested in writing on Engineering topics or Social Sciences topics (though all eligible are welcome to apply).
Why should I apply?
Help out your peers: There’s a lot of research possibilities out there! Be a voice to guide your peers toward exciting, meaningful learning opportunities.
Communication development: Reflect on your research experiences and goals, practice writing for a non-specialist audience, consider how to match an exciting visual to your text, and strategize how to increase reader engagement.
Networking: Connect with peers from other disciplines and class years, conduct interviews with researchers across campus, learn about programs and events designed to support research growth!
Flexibility: Largely remote, a lot of flexibility in hours, and one monthly on-campus meeting during the academic year (snacks included!)
$$$: The position pays $18.50/hour.
Who is eligible to apply?
First-years, sophomores, and juniors
ANY division, ANY concentration
Students passionate about research + sharing their experiences
We will review applications on a rolling basis, but highly encourage you to apply by March 17. You are still welcome to apply after that date.
Any questions? Reach out to Chief Correspondent, Rebecca Cho and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research, Caitlin Larracey. We hope to review your application soon!
–Caitlin Larracey, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research
Rebecca posing with GEO department sign on declaration day
I have had a great experience being the Chief Correspondent for PCUR for the last two years, but as my time at Princeton comes to close, I am excited to pass the torch to Rebecca Cho! Rebecca has been an outstanding Natural Sciences correspondent for PCUR for the past year and a half writing about everything from poster making to interviews about the Ph.D. student experience.
Photo of the Footnotes, Princeton’s fresh low-voice a cappella group founded in 1959
Imagine standing in front of a big audience, heart racing, ready to blend your voice with others and hit the notes of an intricate a cappella arrangement. Every beat, every breath, is crucial. Every time I stand on stage or under an arch with my a cappella group, the Princeton Footnotes, I think of how similar singing and music feels to what I do in the lab. You might be thinking that singing in an a cappella group and doing research are worlds apart. However, these two passions have formed a bond in ways that I never believed possible. In fact, the creativity, collaboration, and discipline I have channeled in being a part of the Footnotes have made me a better researcher—and vice versa.
The Princeton Index of Medieval Art used to be a physical register, much like this one.
Many academic disciplines engage with visual art, whether from the standpoint of art history, material culture, or even paleography. The Princeton Index of Medieval Art is a unique database well-suited to the needs of researchers across various fields. Whether history, comparative literature, art, or classics, the index gathers a vast amount of information on Late Antique and Medieval Artworks, neatly sorted in an accessible way.
Each month in the Office of Undergraduate Research newsletter, we highlight recent posts by Princeton Correspondents on Undergraduate Research (PCUR) authors. This month, we are looking back on ten years of PCUR as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of OUR.
PCUR began the same year as OUR – with the first posts published in September 2014. We invited PCUR alums to share their perspective on their time as a correspondent, including two who were part of the very first PCUR cohort. Read on to learn about how PCUR serves individual correspondents and the larger Princeton community alike, and if this all sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, Princeton first-years through juniors are encouraged to apply here to join PCUR next fall.
Welcome back to PCUR! We are very excited to welcome back several correspondents from last year and introduce the new correspondents joining us! Posts will start up this week, so check your email Wednesday morning for the first post of the academic year.
Top, Virginia Cobbs. Middle, from left to right: Rebecca Cho, Amaya Dressler, Xander Jenkin, and Yubi Mamiya. Bottom, from left to right: Shane Patrick, Kate Weseley-Jones, Alexis Wu, and Shannon Yeow
I have the pleasure of welcoming back PCURs Amaya Dressler ’25 (Amaya is abroad this semester so she’ll be back posting in the spring), Kate Weseley-Jones ’25, and Alexis Wu ’25 and introducing new members Rebecca Cho ’26, Xander Jenkin ’25, Yubi Mamiya ’26, and Shane Patrick ’24, and Shannon Yeow ’26. We’re also very grateful that Virginia Cobbs ’25, joins us again as the Chief Correspondent! I welcome you to engage with their perspectives on and experiences with research. You can learn a little more about each correspondent below and stay tuned for PCUR posts this week.
Top (from left to right): Ryan Champeau, Virginia Cobbs, Amaya Dressler; Bottom (from left to right): Agnes Robang, Kate Weseley-Jones, Alexis Wu
Want a great way to connect with the Princeton research community, meet new friends, and earn some money along the way? Join PCUR! If you’re reading this article, chances are you would be perfect for the job, but don’t hesitate to share this post with folks you think might be interested!
Greetings, all! We hope you’ve enjoyed the blog over the past semester. Brand new content is temporarily paused until our correspondents return from winter break, but we wanted to invite you to engage with the site during that time and we have a few ways you can do so below!