The 2019 McNair Fall Symposium will be held from 12:15 - 4:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, in Mead Auditorium in the West Science Building.
McNair Scholars will deliver 10-minute talks on their summer research endeavors. These talks are open to the public and are an excellent opportunity for students interested in McNair to learn more about the program and connect with staff and other students. Refreshments will be provided.
Presenters and their research projects are:
Katie Bortz - Biology
African Freshwater Crab Systematics: The Taxonomic Status of the Genus Potamautes
Abdi Haji - Environmental Studies
Novel Approaches to Improving Public Transportation in Rural Communities
Lexu Arroyo - Medicinal Plant Chemistry | Biochemistry
Rapid Diagnostic Assay with Colorimetric Detection for HIV, using Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification with Targeted Nucleic Acid and Gold Nanoparticle Reporter System
Jordan Wallace - Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Testing Artificial Gene Control via Designed DNA Looping in Living Bacteria
Cynthia Benson - Criminal Justice
Patterns of Justification: An Analysis of Resignation Letters Written by Male-on-Male Child Molesters within the Boy Scouts of America
Mandy Joslyn - Forensic Biochemistry
Detection of the Necrobiome Following Human Decomposition
Rachel Bazen - Neuroscience
Haptic Distal Spatial Perception Mediated by Strings: Perception of Planar Object Shape from Motion
William Soper - Economics
The Mathematics Behind Social Sciences
Kim Santiago - Biology: Pre-med
Assessment of Dynactin Expression in Presynaptic Motor Neuron Terminals of Mice Deficient in Muscle-synthesized BDNF
Ryan Meister - Economics
Migration in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (2006-2015)
Sara Larson - English
Creation of Tales of the Crew of the Meili Vol. 1
Isabelle Tavares - Environmental Studies & Sustainability
American Society of Magazine Editors: Editorial Internship with Reader's Digest
Amanda Marinoff - Art & Design : Painting
Thoughts and Processes
Malachi Tripaldi - Anthropology
An Almost Micro-usewear Analysis of Beaver Island Lithics
Chris Kailing - Biology: Ecology
Using Local Knowledge to Optimize Live-Capture of American Marten