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The CCRA blog is authored by Columbia undergraduate researchers, who are invited to reflect on all aspects of the research process and their own undergraduate research experiences, beginning (but not ending) with the Core.
Author Archives: Mrinalini Wadhwa
Humanities Research Scholars Program: A Deep Dive!
Next in our series of deep dives into specific fellowships is the Humanities Research Scholars Program, or HRSP! (The first deep dive on the Laidlaw Scholars Program is linked here.) HRSP provides five rising juniors in Columbia College with funding, … Continue reading
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Making the Most of the Writing Center
The Columbia Writing Center, housed in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, is a resource for students of all class years looking to find a supportive writing community on-campus—whether for a University Writing essay, an internship cover letter, a … Continue reading
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Laidlaw Scholars Program: A Deep Dive!
As Eli’s latest blog post points out, one of the key topics that comes up often in the CCRA blog is how to find funded research opportunities, especially as an underclass student looking to pursue summer research! One of the … Continue reading
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Reflections on Language, Translation, and the Core
In September 2020, the first-ever assignment in my Lit Hum section was to develop an intralingual translation of the first seven lines of the Iliad. We had the standard version of the Iliad prescribed by the Core Office—Richmond Lattimore’s 1951 … Continue reading
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‘A Journey to the ‘Metropole’: Tracing Transnational Networks at the University of Oxford
It has always struck me as somewhat paradoxical that some of the Indian subcontinent’s most famous political activists in the twentieth-century journeyed to Britain to complete their education: from the anticolonial leader M.K. Gandhi, to the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to … Continue reading
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