Major and Classification Gerontology and Minor in Natural Science Faculty Mentor Albert Herrera, Ph.D. Department Biological Sciences McNair Project Taking a Closer Look: Developing an Effective Method for Fluorescent Staining of the Neuromuscular Junction Upon birth, mammals contain numerous synaptic connections throughout the nervous system. These synaptic connections are used to carry a multitude of signals and information to different …
EnJolí S. H. Alexander
Major and Classification Political Science Faculty Mentor Jeffery Sellers, Ph.D., J.D., D.C.L. Department Political Science McNair Project Fighting the Enemy: The Evolution of Interracial Wartime Politics in Los Angeles County during the Era of ‘War on Terror’ This explorative study investigated the evolution of interracial wartime politics in Los Angeles County within the modern war era. “Wartime politics” is defined …
Joyce Adesina
Major and Classification Neuroscience Faculty Mentor LaVonna Lewis, Ph.D., M.P.H Department Policy, Planning and Development McNair Project The Perceived Effectiveness of a Los Angeles School-Based Health Center: A Case Study In the past two decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of school-based health centers throughout the nation. California, in particular, currently has 146 school health centers …
Monica Bennett
Major and Classification Psychology Faculty Mentor Eugenia Mora-Flores, Ed.D. Department Education McNair Project Home Literacy Practices: A Study of the Self-Reported Practices and Literacy of Children in Urban Los Angeles This study aims to identify the effects of Spanish-speaking immigrant parents’ home literacy practices on their children’s literacy in English. The participants in this study will be Latino third-grade students …
Calvin Allen
Major and Classification Journalism Faculty Mentor Diane Winston, Ph.D. Department Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism McNair Project Looking Right: Print Media’s Portrayal of Christian Conservatives during the Bush Administration The purpose of this research paper is to discover how three influential newspapers have written the Religious Right’s electoral clout from 2000 until 2004. Specifically this paper explores whether mainstream …
Kristel Bou-Lahoud
Major and Classification Public Policy, Management and Planning Faculty Mentor Ricardo Ramirez, Ph.D. Department Political Science McNair Project Examining the Validity of the Detroit Arab American Study: Comparing the Degree of Arab American Political Participation between Detroit and Southern California Arab Americans have become an active and growing constituency in American politics. As a community, Arab Americans tend to be …
Kimberly Briggs
Major and Classification Print Journalism Faculty Mentor Elaine Bell-Kaplan, Ph.D. Department Sociology McNair Project Looking at the Man in the Mirror?: Content Analysis of AIDS Coverage in Ebony and Newsweek This study, using mainstream American magazines Ebony and Newsweek, looks at how AIDS is covered in these two periodicals from years 2001 to 2006. I intend to show through qualitative …
Eduardo Coronel
Major and Classification American Studies and Ethnicity Faculty Mentor John Rowe, Ph.D. Department American Studies and Ethnicity McNair Project What’s Missing: A Study on How Latino Literature is Represented in High School “American Literature” Textbooks in the Los Angeles Unified School District Latinos have fought for a place in the United States educational system since the 1960’s. Before the Chicano/a …
Linda Circelli
Major and Classification English Faculty Mentor Thomas Gustafson, Ph.D. Department English McNair Project Poe’s “The Raven”: A Sorrowful Moan Wedged between Literature and Psychology Since scholars have written extensively about Edgar Allan Poe’s most popular poem, “The Raven,” why revisit it? While the connections between creativity and madness have been argued since Plato and Aristotle, recent studies in psychiatry, psychology, …
Njideka Chiaghana
Major and Classification Classics Faculty Mentor Thomas Habinek, Ph.D. Department Classics McNair Project Tattle and Temptress: How Cleopatra in Film Reflects Shifting Ideas toward Gender and Race in American Culture This research agrees with Victor Turner’s theory of social drama, and expands on accepted theories about film as reflexive of its historical moment with Stuart Hall’s theory of cultural identity …
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