Major: Philosophy and Neuroscience | Faculty Mentor: Stephen Madigan, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Temporal effects on the binding of auditory and visual modalities in working memory”
Richard C. Ponce Jr.
Major: Biomedical Engineering | Faculty Mentor: Michael W. Jakowec, Ph.D. | Department: Viterbi School of Engineering | McNair Project: “Altered NMDA Expression with Treadmill Exercise in the MPTP-Lesioned Mouse Model of Basal Ganglia Injury”
Rikiesha Pierce
Major: Sociology | Faculty Mentor: Amon Emeka, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Gangsta Feminism: Hip-Hop and the Third Wave Feminist Movement”
Eduardo Mollinedo-Pinon
Major: Neuroscience and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention | Faculty Mentor: Robin D.G. Kelley, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Neglected Music: Avante-Garde Jazz in Los Angeles 1950-1960s
Yiqi Lin
Major: Neuroscience and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention | Faculty Mentor: Adam Leventhal, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Keck School of Medicine
| McNair Project: “The Role of Novelty Seeking, Reward Dependence, and Anhedonia in Pathological Gambling”
Brenton Keller
Major: Philosophy and Neuroscience | Faculty Mentor: John P. Walsh, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
| McNair Project: “Treadmill Exercise Delays Intranuclear Protein Aggregation But Does Not Alter Motor Deficits in 140 CAG Knock-in Mouse Model of Huntington’s Disease”
Tandia R. Elijio
Major: English | Faculty Mentor: Amon Emeka, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
| McNair Project: “Removable Alien: Jamaican Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy under the Obama Administration”
Kyle Tyari Doss
Major: English | Faculty Mentor: Emily Anderson, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
| McNair Project: “The South Los Angeles Food Desert”
Karina Casillas
Major: Public Policy Management & Planning and American Studies & Ethnicity | Faculty Mentor: Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Price School of Public Policy | McNair Project: “Workforce Prep: Student Perceptions of Subject-Centered and Multi-Disciplinary Programs”
Franklin E. Caldwell II
Major: Astronautical Engineering | Faculty Mentor: Joseph Kunc, Ph.D. | Department: Viterbi School of Engineering | McNair Project: “The Lunar Entry and Approach Platform For Research On Ground (LEAPFROG) GNC Simulation Comparison”