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Winter 2007 McNair Scholar Presentations

February 20th, 12:00pm-5:00pm
Gumwood Room, EMU

Welcoming remarks by Daniel Pope
History Department, UO

Maple Room, EMU
1:15 Francis Maddox
Characterization of the Possible Role of Histone H4 in DNA Methylation
Mentor: Eric Selker, Mentor: Keyur Adhvaryu
1:45

Jeffrey Meisner
Hexabenzocoronene (HBC) Derivatives: Toward Self-assembling Molecular Electronics
Mentor: Darren Johnson
Mentor: Colin Nuckolls

2:15 Margarita Wickham
Buffalo Bill and the White West: A Theoretical Analysis of White Supremacist Ideology in American Popular Culture
Mentor: David Vazquez
2:45 Khanh Le
Agent Orange and Reparations for Viet People
Mentor: Lynn Fujiwara
3:15 Maria Cortez
Coping with Hunger: Experiences of Food Insecure Latinos in Eugene, OR
Mentor: Lise Nelson
3:45 Israel Pastrana
Rhetoric, Governmentality, and the Construction of “Illegal” Immigrants in the Post-social State
Mentor: Daniel Pope
   
Oak Room, EMU
1:15 Roseanna Boyer
Effect of Literacy on Success in a Court-Sponsored Drug and Alcohol Treatment Diversion Program
Mentor: Robert Mauro, Mentor: Michael Hibbard
1:45 Joshua Tabaldo
Children's Use of Intentionality Cues in Verb Learning
Mentor: Dare Baldwin, Mentor: Eric Olofson
2:15 John Myers
Early Parental Presence and Self-Other Overlap: An Empirical Examination of Chodorow's Theory of the Reproduction of Mothering
Mentor: Sara Hodges
2:45 Lucia Black
Propositional Modality and Cognition: An Exploration into the Role of Force Dynamics in Epistemic Reasoning
Mentor: Eric Pederson
3:15 Sharryl Sosa-Rodriguez
Native Women in the Artworks
of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica
Mentor: Tania Triana
3:45 Demie Shiferaw
The Rise of Ethnic Consciousness as an Active Political Force in Ethiopia: The Oromo and Amhara 1960-2006
Mentor: Dennis Galvan

Other Summer Research
Dennis Worden
Applying the Murphy-Mikesell Framework to Indian and Tribal Peoples in the United States
Mentor: Alexander Murphy

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