McNair Cohort 2020

Alejandra M. Acevedo
Chemistry Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Theresa McCormick
Research Project: Aerobic Oxidation Reactions Catalyzed by a Carbazolyl Porphyrin-Based -conjugated Microporous polymer (TCPP-CMP)

Luz Maria Anaya
Psychology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Karlyn Adams-Wiggins 
Research Project: Understanding the Impacts of a Latinx Parent's Undocumented Immigration Status for Their College-Enrolled Children

Candice Bland
Mathematics Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr.  Sarah Key-DeLyria
Research Project: The Use of Individual Component Analysis for N400 Events

Stevie Cadiz
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Social Science Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alma Trinidad
Research Project: Picturing Forgotten Filipinos: Family Photographs Resisting U.S. Colonial Amnesia

Soraya Castenada
Public Health Studies Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leslie Bienen
Research Project: The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion and Association with Community Health Center Funding; a Focused Look at the Diabetic Hispanic/Latinx Community

Liliana Diaz
Biology and Public Health Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Lockwood
Research Project: Climate Change Will Increase the Vector Capacity of the Aedes aegypti in South America: A Systematic Map

Anayeli Diaz-Espinosa
Spanish Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eddy Jr. Alvarez
Research Project: Unboxing Binate Fashion: Normalizing Nonbinary Representation in Design

Lidia Echeverria-Garcia
Speech and Hearing Sciences Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann
Research Project: Spirantization amongst Early and Late Sequential Spanish-English Bilinguals
 

Favio Estrada-Sanchez
Psychology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Hermosillo 
Research Project: DNA Methylation Correlates with Network Surface Area in Discordant ADHD Twins

Isabella Ginsberg 
Social Work Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jessica Rodriguez-Jenkins 
Research Project: We had to rely on each other’: The voices of Latinx foster youth with experiences in care with siblings

Augustin Griswold 
Physics Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Erik Sánchez
Research Project: Numerical Model of a Radio Frequency Ion Source for Fusion Plasma Using Particle-In-Cell and Finite Difference Time Domain

Sara Herrejon Chavez
Environmental Studies Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Todd Rosenstiel
Research Project: Evaluating Growth and Survivorship of Afforestation Plots in NYC, and Potential Impacts of Climate Change

Ann Jeline Manabat
Health Studies Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alma Trinidad
Research Project: Transition to Higher Education: Narratives of Transfer Students from the U.S. Territories

Kenyatta Marcelous 
Architecture Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Anna Goodman
Research Project: All Black Everything: A Critical Examination of the Black Utopia

Nya Mbock
Communication Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brianne Suldovsky
Research Project: A Study on How African Immigrants Experience Being Black in America

Yuman Ng
Biology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Suzanne Estes
Research Project: Expanding the search for cancer-emitting volatile organic compounds: A review and Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral assay

Alisha Ortiz
Chemistry Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Strongin
Research Project: Identification of Degradation Products formed from the Thermolysis of Glycerol and Terpenes in MONQ Aromatherapy Devices

Kim Paulin
Chemistry Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marilyn R MacKiewicz 
Research Project: Development of a High-Throughput Assay for Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Identification

Sandra Rios-Ayala 
Speech and Hearing Sciences Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Deanna Britton
Research Project: Delayed True Vocal Fold Closure During Compression Phase of Cough in Individuals with Unilateral Vocal Fold Immobility

Sierra Robinson
Applied Linguistics Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Hellermann
Research Project: Discourse Analysis on Foregrounded Information in Audiological Resources for Parents of Deaf Children”

Erin San Antonio 
Sociology and Social Sciences Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alma Trinidad 
Research Project: Challenging Narratives: The Implications of being perceived as an Agent of Development within the Filipinx Community

Franklyn Santos
Civil Engineering Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elliot Gall
Research Project: Volatile Organic Compound Adsorption-Desorption properties in Various Materials

Patrizha Schroth 
Speech and Hearing Sciences Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Megann McGill
Research Project: Evaluating the Efficacy of Telepractice Speech Therapy for an Adult Who Covertly Stutters

Isabella Shackelford 
Sociology and Black Studies Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shirley Jackson
Research Project: Race and Desirability: Black Women in the Dating Scene

Emily Smoot
Geology Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kelly Gleason
Research Project: Forest Fire Effects on Snow Storage and Melt

Alisha Steigerwald
Biology and Public Health Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Anupriya Agarwal
Research Project: MARCKS is a critical downstream mediator of IL-1-driven AML progression

Jamar Taylor
History Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Ott 
Research Project: A Cultural History of Black Musicians in Renaissance Europe, 1500-1700

Christian Torres  
Communication Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brianne Suldovsky
Research Project: Improving Patient-Provider Perceptions through Alternate Intake Forms

Francesca Weckmann 
Sociology and Spanish Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Melissa Thompson
Research Project: Impact of Sexual Education on the Contraceptive Behaviors of Female Offenders

Kristen Wiidanen 
Social Work Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ericka Kimball
Research Project: Centering Children in Co-Parenting

Felicia Zhou
Biology and Health Sciences Major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marilyn R MacKiewicz
Research Project: Optimizing Gold Nanoparticle-Fluorophore Interactions to Minimize Fluorescence Quenching