2024 McNair Scholars

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Exercise ScienceMentor:?Dr. Michael BrianResearch Title: Cool Solutions to a Hot Problem: Summer Cold Exposure as a Potential Attenuator of Cardiometabolic Disease

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular BiologyMentor:?Dr. Krisztina VargaResearch Title: Investigating the Lyoprotective Properties of a Plant Antifreeze Protein

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Genetics and SustainabilityMentor:?Dr. Chris HernandezResearch Title: Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Warts and Hard Shell in Cucurbita pepo

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: ChemistryMentor:?Dr. Brittany White-MathieuResearch Title: Probing the Death of a Cell

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Linguistics and SpanishMentor:?Dr. Casey RoarkResearch Title: Eye-Smart vs. Traditional: Comparative Research on Tonal Teaching Methods for Mandarin Chinese in Young Adult Native English Speakers

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: BioengineeringMentor:?Dr. Linqing LiResearch Title: Phase Separated Dex-MA hydrogel degradation on controlled cancer drug release

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Economics, Philosophy and Justice StudiesMentor:?Dr. Nicholas SmithResearch Title: Can Capitalism Survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Biomedical ScienceMentor:?Dr. David NeedleResearch Title: Characterizing a potentially novel Moraxella spp. bacteria causing conjunctivitis in a colony of cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis)

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Mechanical EngineeringMentor:?Dr. Brad KinseyResearch Title: Determination of Material Properties in Aluminum from Strain Hardening via Robotic Blacksmithing

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Genetics and FrenchMentor:?Dr. Feixia ChuResearch Title: Determining the Effects of Acetylation and Deacetylation of Lysine 56 on Histone Protein H3 on Embryonic Stem Cell Stemness

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: AnthropologyMentor:?Dr. Samantha McCrane and PhD candidate, Megan Hanna Fry (University of Florida)Research Title: Brooches and Identity in Early Medieval Burials in Britain

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Biomedical Science and World LanguagesMentor:?Dr. Elizabeth HarveyResearch Title: Syndiniales Dinospores' Metabolic Strategies for Survival and Infectivity in the Absence of a Dinoflagellate Host