Link to the University of Northern Colorado Ronald McNair Scholarship Program

2002/2003 McNair Scholars

Tangier Barnes:

Major: Africana Studies/Environmental Studies
Research: What Makes Community-Based Organizations in Los Angeles Successful in Fighting Environmental Racism? A Model for Communities throughout the United States

Yesenia Fernandez:

Major: Journalism and Mass Communication
Research: Print Media Approaches in Reaching Their Minority Populations across the Front Range Communities in Colorado

Meredith Gafford:

Major: Psychology
Research: Student Perceptions of Personality Traits in Sexual Offenders

Jessica Gonzalez:

Major: Psychology
Research: Self-Reported Mood of Single Parents in Higher Education Compared with Traditional Students

Matthew Lang:

Major: Theatre Education
Research: Innate or Acquired? The Psychology of Fear Embedded in the Playscripts Sweeney Todd, Dial “M’ for Murder, and Death and the Maiden

Brandi Lovett:

Major: Sociology
Research: Hispanic-Caucasian Differences in Female Body Image Dissatisfaction

Lindsey MacFarlane :

BA May 2004: Cultural Anthropology/Africana Studies
Research: Roadblocks to Reintegration: An Analysis of Public Perceptions Surrounding Felons’ Access to Higher Education

Flora Kulwa Manega:

Major: Pre-Nursing
Research: An Analysis of the Preferred Six-Month Quarantine Period of Sperm in U.S. Sperm Banks

Jerry Martinez :

Major: Sociology
Research: Factors Facilitating Academic Success for Ethnic Minority College Students

Jenaya McGowan :

Major: Africana Studies
Research 1: Theatre for Development and Its Potential for Empowering Africa
Research 2: El Color Del Iglesia: Greeley, Colorado’s Protestant Clergy and Its Stance on the Church’s Role in Repairing Race Relations between the Anglo and Mexican American Communities

Kelly McMichael:

Major:Psychology
Research: Facilitating a Biracial Identity: Challenges Faced by Parents Who Adopt Transracially

Jamar Rahming :

Major: History-Secondary Education/Africana Studies
Research: The Historical Interpretation of the Black Male through the Eyes of Toni Morrison

James Kawika Riley:

Major: Political Science
Research: Pacific Islander Access To Underrepresented
Minority Scholarships And Fellowships

Mitzi Roher:

Major: Business
Research: Your Firm Is Downsizing… What Do You Need?

Chinyere Tutashinda:

BA August 2004: Journalism and Mass Communication
Research: What Is News?: Journalism Majors’ in a Mid-Sized Mid-Western University Definition of Newsworthiness

Abby Wilson:

BA May 2004: Psychology
Research 1: Suicide Rates and Adverse Weather in Weld and Larimer Counties, Colorado
Research 2: Anti-Semitism in Vampire Lore: Undead in American Pop Culture

 

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