Major: Neuroscience | Faculty Mentor: Antonio Damasio, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife: Neuroscience | McNair Project: “How the Brain Looks on the Bright Side”
Jacquelyn Lopez
Major: Psychology | Faculty Mentor: Steven Lopez, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife: Psychology | McNair Project: “Coping with Psychological Distress: Perceptions of Counseling Services among Latino College Students”
Kerresa Robinson
Major: East Asian Area Studies | Faculty Mentor: Policy, Planning, and Development | Department: Sol Price School of Public Policy | McNair Project: “Urban Growth and the Effect on Changing Food Environments: A Case Study of South and Central Los Angeles Farmer’s Markets”
Cindy Barrios
Major: East Asian Area Studies | Faculty Mentor: Daniel Lynch, Ph.D. | Department: International Relations | McNair Project: “Evaluating the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) on Taiwan’s International Representation”
Elisa Hernandez
Major: Psychology | Faculty Mentor: Shana Redmond, Ph.D. | Department: American Studies and Ethnicity | McNair Project: “Childhood Adversity and the Transition to Parenthood”
Rubi Garcia
Major: American Studies and Ethnicity | Faculty Mentor: Shana Redmond, Ph.D. | Department: American Studies and Ethnicity | McNair Project: “Negotiating Female Sexuality and Feminism in Contemporary America: Can the Two Co-exist?”
Jaylyn Greer-Jones
Major: Sociology
| Faculty Mentor: TBA | Department: Sociology | McNair Project: “Rooted in Oppression: The Growth of the Natural Hair Movement”
Karen Arcos
Major: Psychology
| Faculty Mentor: Kimberle Kelly, Ph.D. | Department: Psychology | McNair Project: “Teachers Think Too: The Relationship of Teacher Metacognition to Student Learning”
Joshua Ramirez
Major: Fine Arts
| Faculty Mentor: Suzanne Hudson, Ph.D. | Department: Art History | McNair Project: “Visual Art Therapy as an Early Intervention Tool for Addressing Mental Illness”
Alexis Sandoval-Uribe
Major: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies
| Faculty Mentor: Jane Figueiredo, Ph.D. | Department: Keck School of Medicine, Preventive Medicine | McNair Project: “Gender-Specific Differences in the Prevalence of Malignant Polyps: A Study focused on Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Hispanics with Colorectal Cancer”