McNair Cohort 2018

Angelica Acosta
Social Work Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Maria Talbott
Research Project: Latina Student Mothers in Higher Education: An Autoethnography

Jedidiah Acott
Biology and Psychology Major:
Faculty Mentor: Dr.  Justin Courcelle 
Research Project: Interstrand Crosslink Resistance in Escherichia coli

Tanya Bennett
Community Development Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sarah Chivers
Research Project: Building Community to Address Gaps in Social Services in Douglas County

William Bradley
Electrical Engineering Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christof Teuscher
Research Project: Advancing Augmented Reality: Using Computer Vision to Balance an Inverted Pendulum

Auna Castellon
Political Science Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elena Avilés
Research Project: Shifting the frame of Transnational Aspirations: Pacific Northwest
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Travis Christian
Liberal Studies Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jacqueline Bernard
Research Project: Vitamin D Levels on Depression and Cognition in Multiple Sclerosis Patients With Ocular Coherence Tomography

Deza’Rae Collins
Psychology, Social Science Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Suzanne Mitchell
Research Project: Cognition changes in a mouse model of neurotoxin induced Parkinson's Disease

Alonso Delgado Covarrubias
Biology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Suzanne Estes
Research Project: Using DDRAD to infer population distribution of Pederson Cleaner shrimp in Central American, Caribbean Oceans

Myiesha Earl
Mechanical Engineering Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elliot Gall
Research Project: Lab testing of a field-deployable chamber for measuring air pollution fluxes on green roofs

Joshua Friedlein
History Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr.  Catherine McNeur
Research Project: Totally Inadequate’: The Sierra Club, the Save the Redwoods League, and the Creation of Redwood National Park, 1964-1968

Alexandra Gallegos
Biology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Suzanne Estes
Research Project: The Functional Impact of CYP2D6 Single Missense Variants

Nickolas Hash
Political Science Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Clucas
Research Project: Societal Impacts of Legalized Cannabis in Oregon
 

Karina Khodakovskaya 
Political Science, Philosophy Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Melody Valdini
Research Project: Putin and the Church: The Use of Religion in Cultivating Public Support

De’Zhane McClyde    
Black Studies Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Derrais Carter
Research Project: Free Ass Black Girls Who Don’t Give a F*ck: Rachetness and Black Girlhood in Popular Media

Katie Mena
Psychology, Spanish Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Kindermann
Research Project: The STEAM Curriculum and the Traditional Method of Teaching

Sophia Nguyen
Psychology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Maciel Hernández
Research Project: Effortful Control in Elementary School Students
 

Dominique O’Donnell
Applied Linguistics Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Conrad
Research Project: Investigating the Distribution of Abstract Pronominal Anaphora

Adam Okoye
Applied Linguistics Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Hellermann
Research Project: Other-Initiated Other-Repair: Repair Organization While Playing a Place-Based Augmented-Reality Game
 

Harley Paulsen
Social Work Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ericka Kimball
Research Project: Strip Club Safety; A Qualitative Study on How Exotic Dancers Experience Occupational Violence in Portland, Oregon Strip Clubs
 

Elizabeth Perez
Biochemistry Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mitchell Cruzan 
Research Project: Analysis of Gametophytic Selection and Selective Embryo Abortion in Mimulus guttatus
 

Dar’ya Pozhidayeva
Biochemistry Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Angela Ozburn
Research Project: Effects of Chronic Stimulation of Nucleus Accumbens on Binge Drinking and Transcriptome

Alisha Ram
Social Work Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gita Mehrotra
Research Project: Impact of Masculinity on Campus Sexual Violence in the Fraternity Setting

Iris Romo
Geology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ashley Streig
Research Project: The Twin Lakes Fault: New Frog Lake Mapping and Description
 

Rae Stevenson
Social Science Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miranda Cunningham 
Research Project: I Don't Want to Be Ashamed, I Want to Learn About My History": Racial Isolation in Predominantly White Schools
 

Rebecca Tait
Geography Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr.  Idowu (Jola) Ajibade
Research Project: Who is more concerned about wildfire in Portland? The role of climate and demographics

Ellis Torrance
Biology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ken Stedman
Research Project: Microvirus – Macro Story: Exploring Diversity of a Microvirus Partial Genome Recovered from an Oregon Peat Bog

Jonathan Uriarte-Lopez
Biochemistry Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Feczko
Research Project: Quality Assessment Inconsistency in Standardized Publicly Available Datasets in Neuroimaging
 

Arjun Viray
Environmental Science Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Corey Griffin 
Research Project: Employees’ Use of a Hospital Healing Garden in Portland, Oregon

Karol Wai
Biology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Drake 
Research Project: Eosinophils Increase Transient Receptor Potential V1 and Substance P Expression in Dorsal Root Ganglia In Vivo