Class of 2008

Leigh Anderson (Sociology)
Heroines of the Genocide: Their Extraordinary Burdens yet Unprecedented Opportunities – The Journey of the Bodies Rwandan Women from being “Sexual Battlefields” during the 1994 Genocide to Occupying Forty-Eight Percent of Parliamentary Seats 
Faculty Advisor: Professor Terri Adams-Fuller & Professor Ralph Gomes

Kara Akins (Political Science)
The Failures of the U.N in Border Conflicts in Africa
Faculty Advisor: Professor Lorenzo Morris

Ree-An Augustin (Art)
The Secret of Successful (Re)Branding: Revealed
Faculty Advisor: Professor Starmanda Bullock

Elizabeth Blackman (HHPLS (Sports Medicine concentration)
Breast Cancer and Ionizing Radiation History of X-Rays to the Chest, Select DNA Repair in Genetic Polymorphisms, and Risk of Breast Cancer
Faculty Advisor: Professor Michael Caprarolla & Professor Marilie Gammon, UNC Chapel Hill

Alisha Brown (Psychology)
Learning More Than ABCs and Race Self Complexity Academic Environment Emotion Theory: Are Emotions Represented in Race Narratives Constructed in Education Environments?
Faculty Advisor: Professor Cynthia E. Winston

Faith Brown (Chemistry)
Preparation and Synthesis of New Cross-Linking Reagents for Hemoglobin: Metallic Salt of 2-(Difluoro-Phosphono-Methyl)-4,4-Difluoro-4-Phosphono-Butyric Acid as a Substitute for 2,3-Diphosphogylycerate
Faculty Advisor: Professor Jason Matthews

Michelle Burke (Mathematics)
Kinetic Modeling of the Maillard Reaction
Faculty Advisor: Professor Daniel Williams

Shelby Burks (Biology)
An Investigation of the Impact of Landscape Morphology on Leaf Litter Decomposition
Faculty Advisor: Professor Mary McKenna

Earl Campbell III (Biology) graduated December 2007
Determination of the Contribution of Caspase-12 Mediated Septic Mortality Using In vivo siRNA Treatment
Faculty Advisor: Professor Leon Dickson

Keidi Carter (Psychology)
Autism: Neurobiological Epidemic? or Erroneously Exploded?
Faculty Advisor: Professor Leslie Hicks

Melanie Chambliss (English)
Not at the Price of Seeming to Be Who We Are Not: An Analysis of Alain Locke’s Influence on the Representation of Black Identity in the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude Movement
Faculty Advisor: Professor Alla Tovares

LaTasha Crutcher (Administration of Justice)
Passed Over: Women in Corrections
Faculty Advisor: Professor Gregory Carr

Erika Dawkins (Psychology)
Race Self Complexity and Interpersonal Relationships: Exploring the Interpersonal Melting Pot Theory and Racial Self Identification of Multiracial Individuals
Faculty Advisor: Professor Cynthia Winston

Travara Farmer (Theatre)
The Media: The Influence and Perpetuation of African-American Stereotypes
Faculty Advisor: Professor Kim Bey

Alandria Fields (Mathematics)
Introduction to Linear Programming and the Teaching of Linear Programming to High School Math Students
Faculty Advisor: Professor Louise Raphael

Maryann Flanigan (French)
Observations of the Female Character in Works by Mariama Ba and Ousmane Sembene
Faculty Advisor: Professor Karen Wallace

Tiffany Francis (Political Science)
Incarcerated: The Young, Black Male and the Criminal Justice System’s “War on Drugs”
Faculty Advisor: Professor Lorenzo Morris

Daniel Gilmer (Biology)
Intracellular Metallic Interactions in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cell Types
Faculty Advisor: Professor Winston Anderson
Post Baccalaureate Research at Rockefeller Center for Medical Research

Megan Goins (Psychology)
Race Self Complexity and Environment: What locations are represented in the narrative reconstruction of autobiographical memories of race?
Faculty Advisor: Professor Cynthia Winston

Lisandra Green (Psychology)
Psychology As A Major: The Effectiveness of a Career Course on the Career-Decision Making Self-Efficacy on A Group of Psychology Majors
Faculty Advisor: Professor Joan Brown

Patience Green (Chemistry)
Comparative Mass Spectrometry Studies of a Library of Dithiocarbamate Ester Analogs of 4-Methylpiperidine
Faculty Advisor: Professor Bakare

Lorin Hay (HHPLS - Sports Medicine concentration)
The Effects of Consecutive Days of Aerobic Exercise and Resistance Exercise on Serum Concentration of Testosterone, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 and Cancer Cell Growth In Vitro
Faculty Advisor: Professor Vernon Bond

Maricia Herron (Theater Arts)
Discovering How to Access the Emotions
Faculty Advisor: Professor Albert Freeman, Jr.

Courtney Hudson (HHPLS - Sports Medicine concentration)
Lifestyle of Physical Activity on Testosterone and LNCaP Prostate Tumor Cell Growth In Vitro Among African American Men
Faculty Advisor: Professor Vernon Bond

Shari Inniss-Grant (English)
When the Private Becomes Public: The Crafting of Intimacy in the Short Story and the Personal Essay
Faculty Advisor: Professor Dana Williams

Nicole Mahdi (Biology)
Comparison of MS and Ham/TSP Patients
Faculty Advisor: Professor Franklin Ampy

Kimberly Martin (Anthropology)
The Relationship Between Chinese Language and Chinese Philosophy
Faculty Advisor: Professor Rebecca Ferrell

Ashley McWilliams (Biology)
Effects of Radiation Dose-Rate on DNA: An Examination of DNA Damage Induced by Chronic Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation
Faculty Advisor: Professor Theodore Bremner

Kyle Monk (Biology)
Androgen Receptor Regulation in Prostate Cancer
Faculty Advisor: Professor Karen Nelson

Cecily Montgomery (Biology)
An International Comparison of Disease Mortality Rates by Universal and Non-Universal Health Care Systems
Faculty Advisor: Professor Duttaroy

Michal-Ann Newman (Health Human Performance and Leisure Studies)
The Effect of Early Experiences on the Brain Physiology and Parental Sensitivity during Early Postpartum
Faculty Advisor: Professor Michael Caprarola

Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi (Psychology)
Blood Pressure and Frontal-Executive Cognitive Function: The Examination of A Linear Versus Nonlinear Relationship
Faculty Advisor: Professor Jules Harrell

Shibrika Pansy (Economics)
The Impact of Race and Income on the Housing Market in Atlanta, GA
Faculty Advisor: Professor Emily Blank

Lauren Pass (Biology)
The Effects of Prenatal Stress on Maternal Behavior Toward Offspring
Faculty Advisor: Professor Franklin Ampy

Tyra Pendergrass (Biology)
Soil Nickel and Seed Origin Effects on Survivorship, Growth and Reproduction in the Hyperaccumulators, Alyssum murale and Alyssum corsicum (Brassicacae)
Faculty Advisor: Professor Mary McKenna

Terrina Price (Psychology)
Social Identity Threat: Implications for Self-Presentation Strategies 
Faculty Advisor: Professor Campbell

Vinian Richards (Biology)
Comparison of Chinese Hamster Wild Type and Gal32 Mutant Mitochondrial Initiation Factor-2 Sequences (IF-2mt) and Their Evolutionary Relatedness to Other Mammalian IF-2mt Sequences
Faculty Advisor: Professor Leon Dickson

Lia Rohlehr (Psychology)
The Effect of Peer Influence on Adolescents Coping with Exposure to Violence
Faculty Advisor: Professor Mark Aber

Kamilah Rose (Biology)
Area Centralis (fovea) Photo-Receptor Mosaic in the Retina of Frog Rana pipiens
Faculty Advisor: Professor Abner Lall

Darcia Rufus (Sociology)
Gentrification and the Re-Entry of the Ex-offender (Specific to the District of Columbia and the Petworth Community)
Faculty Advisor: Professor E. Quimby

Brittani Saafir (Biology)
Assessing the Ability of Predicting Factors to Aide in Locating Study Participants Who Are Lost to Follow-Up
Faculty Advisor: Professor Franklin Ampy

Kalima Smalls (Psychology)
Raising Awareness of HIV/Viral Hepatitis Among Methadone Patients: A Pilot Study
Faculty Advisor: Professor Jules Harrell

Tiffany Taylor (Biology)
Calcitriol Upregulates MIF Protein in Activated Macrophages
Faculty Advisor: Professor Theodore Bremner

Keniesha Thompson (Biology)
Cytoprotective Properties of Scoparia dulcis
Faculty Advisor: Professor Eribo

Carlos Trotman (Spanish)
The Inception of a Linguistic Apocalypse: Language Endangerment and Its Causes 
Faculty Advisor: Professor Mercedes Tibbits

Milanika Turner (Sociology)
The Effects of Debriefing on Police Stress After a Crisis: A Study of New Orleans
Faculty Advisor: Professor Terri Adams-Fuller

Obinna Umunakwe (Chemistry)
Silver Nanoparticle Formation through Chemical Reduction of Silver Ions by Cellulose Fibers
Faculty Advisor: Professor James Mitchell

Michael Varner (Political Science)
The Strategic Importance of Africa Command
Faculty Advisor: Professor Michael Frazier

Tatiana Ware (Political Science)
U.S. Policy towards Cuba during the Clinton Administration and its Influences (1993-2001)
Faculty Advisor: Professor John Cotman