Major: Communication | Faculty Mentor: Alicia Dowd, Ph.D. | Department: Rossier School of Education | McNair Project: “Latino Community College Students and Academic Counseling”
Demetri Euter
Major: Biological Sciences | Faculty Mentor: Suraiya Rasheed, Ph.D. | Department: Keck School of Medicine, Pathology | McNair Project: “Proteomics and Bioinformatics Analysis of Acetylcholinesterase Expressed in Melanoma Stem Cells”
Jorge De Avila
Major: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies | Faculty Mentor: Victoria Cortessis, Ph.D. | Department: Keck School of Medicine, Preventive Medicine | McNair Project: “Defaulting to Medical Follow-Up After an Abnormal Pap Smear Cytology in Malawi Women”
Francisco Rios Casas
Major: Human Biology & American Studies and Ethnicity | Faculty Mentor: Juan de Lara, Ph.D. | Department: American Studies and Ethnicity | McNair Project: “Understanding the Relationship between Demographic Changes in Southern California and Localized Environmental Health Risks”
Justin Pearce
Major: Environmental Studies | Faculty Mentor: David Ginsburg, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife: Environmental Studies | McNair Project: “Assessing the Impacts of Policy on Aquaculture in California”
Stephanie Mercado
Major: Environmental Studies | Faculty Mentor: Kristen Weiss, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife: Environmental Studies | McNair Project: “Acculturation and the New Ecological Paradigm: A Case Study of Mexican and Mexican Americans in Fresno, CA”
Vickie Trinh
Major: Biological Sciences | Faculty Mentor: Jed A. Fuhrman, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife: Biological Sciences | McNair Project: “Growth of Thaumarchaea MGI Enrichment Culture Under Viral Pressure, Photoinhibition and Exposure to Natural Marine Microbes”
Rocio Hidalgo
Major: Psychology | Faculty Mentor: Laura Baker, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife: Psychology | McNair Project: “Peer Victimization: Individual Differences in Race and Sex”
Paloma DeLira
Major: Policy, Planning, and Development | Faculty Mentor: LaVonna B. Lewis, Ph.D. | Department: Sol Price School of Public Policy | McNair Project: “Uses of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Latinos with Type 2 Diabetes in South Los Angeles”
Maria Plascencia
Major: American Studies and Ethnicity | Faculty Mentor: George Sánchez, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife: American Studies and Ethnicity | McNair Project: “The Japanese Chicano Movement”