McNair Research at Trinity

At the heart of the McNair Scholars Program is a paid, ten week summer research experience that allows McNair Scholars to conduct one-on-one research with a faculty mentor. In addition to a stipend (up to $2,800), Scholars receive free on-campus housing and a $600 board stipend during their summer research experience.

• 2009 McNair Summer Research Experience
  
  Participants:

• Jacqueline Arevalo - Dining Out to Escape
  Research Mentor: Dr. Charlene Davis (Business Administration)

• Stephanie Croatt - Into Mexico's "Wild West": The Scope and Nature of Immigration to Yucatán, 1864-1911
  Research Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Mathews (Sociology and Anthropology)

• Domale Dube - Folktale in contemporary Nigerian Literature
  Research Mentor: Dr. Betsy Tontiplaphol (English)

• Patrice Durden - Cultural Competence: A Model for Improving Doctor Patient Relationships
  Research Mentor: Dr. William McCaughrin (Healthcare Administration)

• Brittany Flores - Words in the Clouds, Wringing Them Out Like the Rain: Exploring and Using Ecopoetry
  Research Mentor: Ms. Jenny Browne (English)

• Celeste Garcia - A Future Outlook from Generation Next: Youth Perceptions of the Workforce
  Research Mentor: Dr. Sheryl Tynes (Sociology and Anthropology)

• Mike Guerra - You have the Right to Remain Silent: Latinos in Television's Prime Time Police Procedurals
  Research Mentors: Drs. Rob Huesca & Jennifer Henderson (Communication)

• Wendy Hernandez - The Female Athlete
  Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Soto (English)

• Brandi Jackson - Affects of Happiness in Reference to the Aesthetics of the House/Home and the Surrounding Environment
  Research Mentor: Dr. Harry Wallace (Psychology)

• Phuong Khuu - Who is Black?
  Research Mentor: Dr. Carey Latimore (History)

• Paulius Kosmarciukas - The 21st Century Workforce: Is there a "Skills Gap?" If So, How Can We Close It?
  Research Mentor: Dr. Richard Butler (Economics)

• Reuben Lucas - It's All About the Benjamins
  Research Mentor: Ms. Katherine Lopez (Business Administration)

• Amanda Martinez - A Geographic Analysis of the Social Construction of Latino Identity through the Catholic Church
  Research Mentor: Sister Maria Eva Flores, CDP, Ph.D. (OLLU, Mexican American Studies) 

• Charlie Mitchell - Tax Increment Financing in San Antonio
  Research Mentor: Dr. Christine Drennon (Sociology and Anthropology)

• Ima Oduok - Creole and French, Wirttend and Oral Tradition: Hybridity in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco
  Research Mentor: Dr. Heather Sullivan (English)

• Chad Oian - Applications of Non-contact Video-based Tracking to Avoidance of Avian/Window Collisions
  Research Mentor: Dr. Jack Leifer (Engineering Science)

• Huyhn Nga Nguyen - Testing the Resource Use Hypothesis in Invasive Species Control
  Research Mentor: Dr. Kelly Lyons (Biology)

• Patricia Perez - Modeling Traffic in a Multi-Agent System with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  Research Mentor: Dr. Yu Zhang (Computer Science)

• Roxana Rojas - Challenging the American Model: Do the Children of Immigrants Influence Political Identity Formation of their Parents? Parentification an Political Identity Formation of First Generation Immigrants from Mexico to the United States
  Research Mentor: Dr. Katsuo Nishikawa (Political Science)

• Mark Sullivan - jSynthesizer: A Java based first-motion synthetic seismogram tool
  Research Mentor: Dr. Glenn Kroeger (Geosciences)

• Nathan Tovar - Students Beware: A look at Ratemyprofessors.com through the Eyes of Defamation Law
  Research Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Henderson

• 2008 McNair Summer Research Experience

  Participants:

• Gordon Abner - Why Chicago? Push and Pull Factors that led to Chicago's Great Migration during the period of 1940-1960
  Research Mentor: Dr. Enene Ejikeme (History)
  

• Domale Dube - Racial Identity Formation and Children of African Immigrants
  Research Mentor: Dr. Rocio Delgado (Education)

• Patrice Durden - Health Care Issues in the African Community
  Research Mentor: Dr. William McCaughrin (Healthcare Administration)
  

• Celeste Garcia - The History of Upward Bound and Trinity University's "Shot in the Dark"
  Research Mentor: Dr. Sheryl Tynes (Sociology)

• Miguel Guerra - If You Build It, They Will Come: An Analysis of the Immigration Patterns and Policies of the United States through the 20th Century and into the 21st
  Research Mentor: Dr. Arturo Madrid (Modern Languages and Literatures)
  

• Daniel Large - The Role of Process Independence in Think/No-Think Forgetting
  Research Mentor: Dr. Paula Hertel (Psychology)
  

• Maria Cristina Lopez - The Redevelopment of Main Plaza in San Antonio, Texas: A Pentadic Analysis of Urban Communication and Public Space
  Research Mentor: Dr. Rita Urquijo-Ruiz (Modern Languages and Literatures)
  

• Amanda Martinez - Geographic Analysis of Cultural Identity: An Examination of Latino Space in Bexar County
  Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Soto (English)
  

• Kayla Mire - Reality Construction and Spaces for Discussion: A Rhetorical Analysis of U.S. Immigration Advocacy
  Research Mentors: Dr. Robert Huesca (Communication) and Dr. Andrew Hansen (Speech and Drama)

• Roxana Rojas - An Exploration of Immigration Issues through Story: Cuando la Luz del Sol Pierde su Valor
  Research Mentors: Drs. Rosana Blanco-Cano and Rita Urquijo-Ruiz (Modern Languages and Literatures)

• Mark Sullivan - Analysis of the Fractal Dimension of Cumulus Clouds
  Research Mentor: Dr. Eugene Clark (Physics)

Questions about the summer research experience can be directed to the Program Director.