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  • McNair Summer Research Mentors

Trinity University faculty play an integral role in the success of the McNair Summer Research Program. The role of the faculty research mentor is to provide academic support as it pertains to the development and implementation of the scholar’s research project. The faculty mentor will work with the scholar to see the project to completion.


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  McNair Summer Research Mentor Role

The following is a list of Trinity University faculty members who are interested in serving as research mentors within the McNair Scholars Program and the titles of their ongoing research projects.

If you are a faculty member and wish to add, delete, or modify a research project title, please contact the Program Director.

Research Projects within a Single Discipline 

Madrid, Arturo; Blanco-Cano, Rosana; and Urquijo-Ruiz, Rita (Modern Languages and Literatures)

Transborder, Transnational Artistic and Cultural Production: an Examination of the Artistic and Cultural Production of the U.S. Mexico Border

Bachrach, Steve (Chemistry)

Aqueous Solvation of Amino Acids: How Many Water Molecules are Needed

Blanco-Cano, Rosana (Modern Languages and Literatures) Cuerpos disidentes del México imaginado: género, etnia y nación más allá del México posrevolucionario

Brodl, Mark (Biology)

Cell biology of heat stress-induced unfolded protein responses of secretory cells

Bushey, Michelle (Chemistry)

Capillary Separations and Mass Spectrometry applied to Analytical Challenges of Biological Interest

Chandler, Bert (Chemistry)

Bottom up Nanofabrication of Heterogeneous Catalysts

Crosbie, Chris (English) Philosophies of Retribution: Kyd, Shakespeare, Webster, and the Revenge Tragedy Genre

Ejikeme, Anene (History)

On Three Continents:  The Life and Times of a Nigerian Surgeon

Gulyas, Erika (Economics)

Inflation Targeting and Macroeconomic Stability in Eastern European Countries

Hertel, Paula (Psychology) Cognitive Biases in Remembering and Forgetting

Hollenbeck, Jessica (Chemistry)

Ankyrin Repeat Proteins as Novel Multivalent Ligand Scaffolds

Hunsicker-Wang, Laura (Chemistry)

Copper chaperones from Thermus thermophilus

Kania, Andrew (Philosophy)

Philosophers on Memento

King, Jonathan (Biology)

Evaluation of Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity on Epithelial Cell Junctions

Latimore, Carey (History)

Unfree Labor and Free Blacks in Richmond, Virginia

Lyons, Kelly (Biology)

Use of Plant Functional Traits to Construct Invasion Resistance Communities

Meyer, Glenn E. (Psychology)

Altruism and the Armed Populace

Mills, Nancy (Chemistry)

Using Antiaromatic Compounds to Understand Aromaticity

Pursell, Chris (Chemistry)

Chemistry on Low Temperature Solids

Pursell, Chris (Chemistry)

Evaporation Studies of Fuel Films

Rando, David (English)

Make It News!: Representing Experience in Twentieth-Century News

Rando, David (English)

Surfing Modernism: Archive, Information, and Conservation

Ribble, David (Biology)

The Genetics of Monogamous Mating Systems in Mammals

Salomon, Willis (English)

The Tropes of Medical Authority in Early Modern England

Soto, Michael (English)

Rethinking the Harlem Renaissance: A Social History of Harlem, 1900-1940

Spiegel, Dan (Physics)

Studies of Bacterial Diffusion in Nonequilibrium Biconvection Flow

Terrell Jr., Wilson (Engineering Science)

Investigation of Microencapsulated Phase Change Material Slurry as a Heat Transfer Fluid

Interdisciplinary Research Projects 

Healy, Frank (Biology) and Hunsicker-Wang, Laura (Chemistry)

Assembly of the CuB site of the Terminal Oxidases in E. coli and Thermus thermophilus

Healy, Frank (Biology) and Mills, Nancy (Chemistry)

Small Molecule Signaling in Secondary Metabolite-Producing Streptomyces

Kelly-Zion, Peter (Engineering Science) and Pursell, Chris (Chemistry)

Evaporation Studies of Fuel Films

King, Jonathan (Biology) and Bushey, Michelle (Chemistry)

Identification of Phosphorylation Sites in ZO-1

Lewis, Mark (Computer Science)

Optimizing Simulation of Collisional Dynamics (astronomy/physics related)

Lewis, Mark (Computer Science)

Large-scale Simulation of Planetary Moon-Ring Dynamics (astronomy/physics related)

Livingstone, Kevin (Biology) and Mills, Nancy (Chemistry)

Evolution of Specificity in a Duplicated Gene

 

 


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