What do math, music, menus, and machinery all have in common? They’re all themes explored at the most recent UH Student Fellow Roundtable!
Each semester, a cohort of our Student Fellows share their work with the UH Faculty, Staff, and peer Fellows at a one-night-only roundtable event. This Fall, we welcomed four Fellows to the floor to present their work: Alyssa Forester, Michelle Zheng, Sabine Buccheri, and Sarah Bamba. Learn more about each of their projects below!
Alyssa Forester
Alyssa’s project, “Math-ish: Reducing Math Anxiety and Building Belonging,” focuses on the ways in which women, particularly women of color, are often pushed away from the field of mathematics. Her original Vantage Point project was to create a club targeting Black female undergrads in non-STEM courses who still had an interest in math. Upon further research and advisement, she moved to having a one-off event instead. This Math Party (complete with pizza!) will happen later this semester and aims to bring the fun back to math fundamentals.
Michelle Zheng
Michelle’s project, “Translating the Grande Buffet,” may have started out as a conversation on multimedia translation, but morphed into a tangible service project that made a local Asian restaurant legible to customers who did not speak the same language. She has already created multiple fliers, menu mockups, and a slogan for the restaurant: “Tradition on every plate. Culture in every bite.” She is now turning her attention to the creation of a new website and hopes to complete it by the end of the academic year.
Sabine Buccheri
Sabine’s project, “Part Two,” showcases an artist’s journey from ideation to creation and, finally, to production. A musician at heart, she has written roughly 40 minutes of music and is currently in the middle of recording demos for the 12 songs that will make up her album. She aims to use local spaces and artists around MD to help her in creating the final product later this year.
Sarah Bamba
Sarah’s project, “The Lamin Organization,” started with one simple goal: to make assistive technology accessible to underserved families. But that goal has proven to be much more complex as she has spent the last year not only registering as a UMD student organization, but also working toward founding her own non-profit based on their work. Her next big project is creating and facilitating their first fundraising gala this spring.