Current Scholars

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

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024 Major: Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology Mentor: Dr. Krisztina Varga Research Title: Investigating the Lyoprotective Properties of a Plant Antifreeze Protein

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024 Major: Genetics and Sustainability Mentor: Dr. Chris Hernandez Research Title: Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Warts and Hard Shell in Cucurbita pepo

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024 Major: Chemistry Mentor: Dr. Brittany White-Mathieu Research Title: Probing the Death of a Cell

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024 Major: Linguistics and Spanish Mentor: Dr. Casey Roark Research 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, 2024 Major: Bioengineering Mentor: Dr. Linqing Li Research Title: Phase Separated Dex-MA hydrogel degradation on controlled cancer drug release

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

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

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024 Major: Mechanical Engineering Mentor: Dr. Brad Kinsey Research Title: Determination of Material Properties in Aluminum from Strain Hardening via Robotic Blacksmithing

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024 Major: Genetics and French Mentor: Dr. Feixia Chu Research 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, 2024 Major: Anthropology Mentor: 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, 2024 Major: Biomedical Science and World Languages Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Harvey Research Title: Syndiniales Dinospores' Metabolic Strategies for Survival and Infectivity in the Absence of a Dinoflagellate Host