The Project

This summer I researched The Morbidity and Mortality of Texas Tornado Outbreaks. For a professional summary, the abstract is as follows: “Tornadoes, due in part to limits in forecasting and warning, are a significant cause of disaster-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. Texas has experienced the highest number of tornado related fatalities in…

Weeks 6-10: The Home Stretch

What a summer it has been! As the program comes to a close (and stress levels rise in the final week), the ending is bitter-sweet, seeing our hard word produce tangible outcomes but nearing the time where we all part ways back to our home universities. This summer has had me realize just how vital…

Week 5: Full Speed Ahead

Howdy! As we’re halfway done, I’m getting more and more excited for the work we’re doing here. This past week I’ve prioritized meeting and talking with our program’s professors for guidance and inspiration, as well as focused on making tangible progress every day. One thing (amongst many) that I’ve learned this week is while I’m…

Week 4: Finalizing the Proposal

Howdy once again! As we’re almost half way done, time seems to be flying by. Here’s what was up this week (pretty similar to last week). By now, all of us researchers here (dang, how cool is that) are in a groove of coming into the lab/office rooms and doing lit reviews until lunch, collecting…

Week 3: Data, data & more data

Howdy, and what a week it has been! Amongst all the faculty lunches and mentor/lab meetings, research ideas have been thrown all over the place, and I think I’ve finally settled on one. I’m not going to jinx anything just yet, so more updates to come once the proposal is finalized. This week was generally…

Week 2: Research Computing Week

Howdy! Week two is over and time is speeding by. Most mornings this week were spent in the lab working on research proposals or at High Performance Research Computing Week seminars. Plus, great news, free lunches all week; WHOOP to that! This past week’s schedule was pretty busy! We learned a lot about coding (Ah!) and computer softwares…

Week 1: New to the REU

We have recently completed the first week, WHOOP! Even though it was filled with orientation and administrative business, I’m already learning more than I would have hoped. And it is going by SO fast. In between introductory and developmental seminars, we were consistently surrounded by faculty, staff, graduate students, and all around inspiring and incredibly talented people…