Major: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Masters in Global Medicine | Faculty Mentor: Robert Maxson, Ph.D. | Department: Keck School of Medicine, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Effects of Defective STAT3/Wnt pathways on Cardiac Neural Crest Cell Migration and Heart Development”
Armando Barajas
Major: Philosophy and Political Science | Faculty Mentor: Dallas Willard, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Truthfulness and Its Limits”
Josephine Chou
Major: Psychology and Minor in Religion | Faculty Mentor: Darby Saxbe, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Withdrawal Behavior as a Moderator between Family Aggression and Adolescent Depression”
Crispin Collins
Major: History and Minor in French | Faculty Mentor: Elinor Accampo, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Liberal Use of ‘Liberalism’: A Comparison between an 1838 Liberal”
Denise Colome
Major: Communication and Minor in Sociology | Faculty Mentor: Amon Emeka, Ph.D. | Department: Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “A Qualitative Study on Black and Latino Service Sector Workers at USC”
Abel Delgado
Major: History and Minor in Human Resource Management | Faculty Mentor: Sherry Velasco, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Marshall School of Business | McNair Project: “The Jewess and Mooress in the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X”
Juan Espinoza
Major: International Relations and Communication | Faculty Mentor: Kristan M. Venegas, Ph.D., Roberto Suro, M.S. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
| McNair Project: “Spaces of Community Wealth and Collective Energy in the “Empower Law Fellows Program”
La Tarrell A. Brown
Major: Sociology | Faculty Mentor: Michael Messner, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Dating Equality Between Heterosexuals”
Rahel Gebreyes
Major: International Relations and Public Relations | Faculty Mentor: Sheila Murphy, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism | McNair Project: “Embedded in News Coverage, Mirrored in Public Opinion: Television News and the Deterioration of Support for Operation Iraqi Freedom”
Mariah Gill
Major: Environmental Studies | Faculty Mentor: James Haw, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Shaping Marine Protected Areas: The Media and Stakeholder Arguments in Southern California”