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2006 McNair Scholar Presentations

Welcoming remarks by Charles R. Martinez, Jr.
Interim Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity

Jessica Brown
Moral Hazard as a Market Failure in the Private Provision of Social Insurance
Mentor: Mark Thoma

David Burnett, visiting McNair Scholar, Southern Oregon University
Sexual Information, Attitudes, Behaviors, and Satisfaction
Mentor: Lani Fujitsubo

Michael Creech
Mechanisms for Seismicity on the southern Endeavor Segment
Mentor: Douglas Toomey

Stanley Edmonson
Opal Whiteley: A Case Study in Local Censorship
Mentor: Elizabeth Reis

Richard Fuller
How Contact Work Function Affects Conductivity
Mentor: Mark Lonergan
Khanh Le
Transnational Violence and the United States War in Viet Nam
Mentor: Lynn Fujiwara

Tanya Parlet
In Order to Preserve Our Future: An Analysis of German and American Responses to the Problems of Depression-Era Youth
Mentors: John Nicols and Daniel Pope

Kelly Shaw
False Epistemologies: the Curious Case of Helicobacter pylori
Mentors: Gautam Bhattacharyya and James Mohr

Margarita Smith
Ideology and Policy: Public Discourse and the Birth of The Welfare Queen
Mentor: Martin Summers

Isaac Torres
Escapism as a Manifestation of Poverty and Racial Discrimination
Mentor: Cai Emmons
Brian Truong
Myotonic Dystrophy: The Structure of CUG Repeats in Solution
Mentors: Andy Berglund and Jill Murray

Other Summer Research
Christine Finley
Anna Julia Cooper and Zitkala-Sa: Using the Institution of Education to Create New Gendered and Racialized Possibilities for Women of Color
Mentor: Shari Huhndorf


Imelda Moise
The Great Flood of 1997: An Examination of Landowner Perceptions in the Applegate Valley
Mentor: Patricia McDowell


Noppamas Suttinun
Maltreatment of the Akha ethnic minority in Thailand
Mentor: Susan Hardwick


Margarita Wickham
The Cyclization of 2-(Phenylazobenzonitriles)
Mentor: Mike Haley

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