McNair Scholar Presentations, Publications, and Conferences 2019-2020
EWU McNair is proud to announce that 18 EWU McNair Scholars presented at this year’s Virtual Symposium. A huge thank you to all of the mentors that helped make this possible. We’re so proud of all of our students’ hard work and look forward another summer research in just a few weeks! Below is a list of our presenters and their presentations plus links to learn more about students or see their presentations.
Presentations at the EWU Virtual Symposium 2020
EWU McNair Alumna Veronica Albrecht: “Characterizing Two cagPAI Located Small RNAs in Helicobacter pylori” in collaboration with Dr. Andrea Castillo and “Gene Expression Regulation of sRNA Hpnc2525 in the Clinically Relevant Helicobacter pylori cagPAI Genomic Region” in collaboration with EWU McNair STEM GSA and fellow graduate student Brandon Flatgard, under the mentorship of Dr. Andrea Castillo
Analisea Araya: “An Analysis of Early Modern Philosopher Mary Astell and a Critique of the Western Canon” with the mentorship of Dr. Kevin Decker
Gloria Bravo: “Economic Sanctions Reproduce State Sponsored Repression, Human Rights Violations and Violence: A Case Study of Venezuela” with the mentorship of Dr. Majid Sharifi
Madelyn Brown: “Maintaining Our Land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wildfire Prevention” with the mentorship of Dr. Christina Torres García and PhD candidate SimHayKin S. Jack
Malachi Chukwu: “Projects of Economic and Social Development in the Global South: The 20th and 21st-century developmental trends and their impacts” with the mentorship of Dr. Majid Sharifi
Alexandria Coronado: “Research Proposal: Housing and Food Insecurity Among College Students” with the mentorship of Dr. Lindsey Upton
Ashley Destin: “Size Scaling in the Skull of North American Felids as Adaptations for Prey Acquisition” with the mentorship of Dr. Judd Case
Angélica García-Macías: “Eat the Poor” under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Hawley
Darlene Gilroy: “Chemical Weathering of Deposits from the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption and its Effect on Stream Water Chemistry” in collaboration with Dr. Carmen Nezat
Alexis Guizar-Diaz: “Machismo, Marianismo, and The Ethics of Care” with the mentorship of Dr. Mimi Marinucci, he will continue this research in the summer of 2020 with Dr. Edwin Elias
Theresa Lee: “Understanding Prisoner Reentry: Public Perceptions of Reentry Barriers Among College Students” with the mentorship of Dr. Lindsey Upton
Wendolyn Martinez: “Propaganda: USSR and US – Comparing Propaganda from the US and USSR Produced for the Advancement of Public Approval for Hydro-projects in the 1930s,” with the mentorship of Dr. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
Abdulrazik Mohamed: “Darfurians in the Diaspora: Perceptions of the Conflict in Darfur, Sudan’s Past and the Future of Darfur Under International Response” with the mentorship of Dr. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
Aulane Mpouli: “Molecular Docking Study of ITPA protein substrate complex” with the mentorship of Dr. Yao Houndonougbo
Rachael Pentico: “A Review of Plant-Soil Feedbacks and Their Importance For Palouse Prairie Restoration and Management” with the mentorship of Dr. Rebecca Brown
EWU McNair Alumna Christina Ramelow: “Oral Farnesol Administration Protects Against Inflammatory Demyelination,” research done with mentorship from Dr. Javier Ochoa-Reparaz and in collaboration with multiple other graduate students and faculty
Hope Sands :“Exploring the Archaeological and Geographical Past of Fort Spokane: A Proposal” with the mentorship of Dr. Brian Buchanan.
Rachel Silverthorn: “Gender differences in confidence in jury decision making” under the mentorship of Dr. Kayleen Islam-Zwart
Presentations and Publications Across the United States in 2019-2020
Rosa Espinosa Zuniga presented “Gratitude, Spirituality, and Religiosity as predictors of psychological well-being in Latinx Aging Population” with the mentorship of Dr. Phillip Watkins and Dr. Theresa Martin at the Baylor McNair Conference and Graduate School Fair in Waco, TX.
Darlene Gilroy presented, “Chemical Weathering of Deposits from the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption and its Effect on Stream Water Chemistry” in collaboration with Dr. Carmen Nezat 2019 at the Murdock College Science Research Conference in Tacoma WA and the 2020 WE-STEM conference at EWU.
Theresa Lee presented, “Prisoner Reentry: College Perceptions of Reentry Barriers in a Northwest Community” with the mentorship of Dr. Lindsey Upton at American Society of Criminology (ASC).
Abdulrazik Mohamed presented, “Sudanese in Diaspora: Perceptions on the conflict in Darfur” at the 2019 Black Doctoral Network Conference in Newark, New Jersey, and at the 8th Annual Women in Genocide Symposium: The Case of Darfur; he completed his research with the mentorship of Dr. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted.
Marcos Monteiro, along with former EWU McNair Scholar Laurisa Ankley, McNair Faculty Mentor Dr. Andrea Castillo, fellow student Katherine Camp, and Dr. Robin O’Quinn, published their article “Manuka honey chelates iron and impacts iron regulation in key bacterial pathogens” in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.
Rachel Silverthorn presented, “Gender differences in in Perceptions of Female Defendants” with the mentorship of Dr. Kayleen Islam-Zwart at the 31st Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention. Washington, D.C.
