Covering topics from socializing baby mice and “The Bootyshort Revolution” to vaccine hesitancy and the works of Roman historian Sallust, the McNair Scholars Research Symposium kicked off April 15, 2022, with the first of 18 scholars presenting their research in Sims Hall on the Syracuse University campus. Day Two of the Symposium will be held on April 22 from 12:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Sims 331.
Part of the School of Education’s Center for Academic Achievement and Student Development, the McNair Scholars Program serves first-generation, low-income, and/or underrepresented students. It prepares high-achieving undergraduates for graduate studies by offering hands-on research opportunities, academic services, and scholarly activities.
Adriana Crump ’22 and Nathania Pabon ’22 got the symposium underway. A Psychology and Forensic Science major, Crump has worked as an undergraduate research assistant in College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology Professor Kevin Anthsel’s ADHD Lifespan Treatment and Education Research (ALTER Lab). Drawing on this experience, Crump’s symposium presentation looked at “Race, Emotional Regulation, and Functional Outcomes in College Students With and Without ADHD.”
Pabon is a Neuroscience and Psychology major who, as a behavioral science research assistant, has been working with mice models to study early life adversity in humans and the effects of socializing animals who have undergone early life adversity with those who have not. Pabon presented, “Does Environmental Enrichment Mitigate the Reduction in Attraction to Social Odors by Mixed Groups of Control and Maternally Separated Adolescent CD-1 Mice?”
McNair Symposium Day One Presenters
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Nathania Pabon ’22 Adriana Crump: “Race, Emotional Regulation, and Functional Outcomes in College Students With and Without ADHD”
- Nathania Pabon: “Does Environmental Enrichment Mitigate the Reduction in Attraction to Social Odors by Mixed Groups of Control and Maternally Separated Adolescent CD-1 Mice?”
- Tiffany Tang: “Autopilot Systems”
- Dorbor Tarley: “Differential Reactions to African American and Caucasian Women’s Postnatal Maternal Stress”
- Christopher Taveras: “Characterizing Cetrosome Interaction and Positioning in Relation to Cilia Formation During Kupffers Vesicle Development”
- Charisma Leach: “Analyzing Behavioral Engagement to Predict Attention in PWA”
- Can Chen: “Evolutionary Phenomics of Drosophia”
- Denise Magny: Understanding the Role of Cenexin-Mediated PLK1 Signaling in the Structural Organization of the Centrosome”
McNair Symposium Day Two Presenters
- Cameron Joy Gray: “The Bootyshort Revolution: A Short Film About School Dress Codes and Race and Sex Discrimination Based on True Events”
- Layla Halalou: “Minority Newspapers’ Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Are Pharmacists’ Voices Heard?”
- Alicia Mason: “Environmental Enrichment Effect on the Stress Reactivity in Mixed, Controlled, and Maternally Separated Adolescent CD1 Mice?”
- Kevin Treadway: “Critical Reading: Prose Works of Cicero and Sallust”
- Berri Wilmore: “Blood Politics”
- Rolando Cabral: “Concept Proposal: Strategies for Closing the Digital Divide”
- Gabriela Lisette “Holliman-Lopez: Understanding Conspiracy Theories About the 2020 Presidential Election”
- Jazmine Richardson: “The Development of an Open Source Turbidostat Towards Parallel Expression of Multiple-Labeled Mutants”
- Amer Mousa: “An American Cry for Liberty: A Look into the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp”
- Ashley Tubens: “Medical Workers’ Judgement of Black and White Patients Seeking Sexual/Reproductive Health Counseling”