Class of 2011

Khadijah Abdus-Salaam (English) 
Complex Kinship in August Wilson’s Plays 
Mentor: Dr. Sandra Shannon

Nicole Adair (Political Science)
Language Acquisition and Culture in Early Education Programs and Learning in the United States: A Critical Perspective Using the Cooperative Principle and Pedagogy
Mentor: Dr. Abdul Bangura

Appiah Boakye (Political Science)
Koreans in Japan: The Concealed Apratheid
Mentor: Prof. Babalola Cole

Andrea Nicole Brown (Political Science)
Capital Greed: The Modern Disenfranchisement of the African-American Race
Mentor: Prof. Merve Kavakci

Rhushanda Burke (Political Science) 
What About Our Children? American Public Education’s Discrimination Against Minority and Underprivileged Children
Mentor: Dr. Daryl Harris

Shannon Chiles (Psychology)
The Association between Lipids and Cognitive Function among African Americans 
Mentor: Prof. Regina Sims

Alysicia Curtis (Biology)
The Association between Indices of Blood Pressure, Verbal Memory, and Verbal Ability in African Americans
Mentors: Prof. Regina Sims and Prof. Leon Nicholson, Jr.

Esther Ekpin (Biology)
Immunocytochemical Localization of Estrogen Receptors in the Paraventricular and Supraoptic Hypothalamic Nuclei of Post-natal Day 21 Female Rats pretreated with 17-beta-Estradiol
Mentor: Prof. Winston Anderson

Chantal Hailey (Sociology) 
Influences on School Choice for Relocated Hope VI Residents
Mentor: Prof. Ralph Gomes

Ashley Hodges (Political Science) 
Discriminatory Agricultural Policies and the Decline of Black Farmers in America
Mentor: Dr. Daryl Harris

Charity Jackson (World Languages and Culture) 
The Butterfly Effect on Vladimir Nabokov’s Literature
Mentor: Prof. Clement Akassi

Kenya James (Political Science)
Cultural War on Terrorism: U.S.  Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Mentor: Dr. Abdul Bangura

Gloria Jiraraie (English)
Evolving Identities: An Examination of Modes of Female Liberation in Canonized Fiction and Popular Culture
Mentor: Prof. Yasmin DeGout

Jonathan Madison (Political Science) 
Today’s Dropouts, Tomorrow’s Prison Population: District of Columbia 1960-2009
Mentor: Prof. John Cotman

Monique Major (Psychology) 
Is There Something Unique About the Artists Artistic Creative Process? A Mixed Method Study
Mentor: Prof. Jules Harrell

Lakeya McFarlane (Art)
Sustainable Dormitory
Mentor: Prof. Mark Watkins

Naa Koshie Mills (Political Science)
Africom and Agoa: A Critical Analysis Using Qualitative Methodology, Realist Theory, and Dependency Theory
Mentor: Dr. Abdul Bangura

Natalie Ramsey (Biology)
Malaria: Determining the Role of Insulators in the Regulation of var genes in Plasmodium falciparum and investigating the Potential of Uroporphyrinogen-III-synthase to serve as a Target for a Host-directed Antimarial Therapy ---- Preliminary Results
Mentor: Prof. Clarence Lee

Candice Thompson (Chemistry)
Correlating HDAC Inhibitors to Changes in Cellular Organelles
Mentors: Dr. Stuart Schreiber and Prof. Oladapo Bakare 

Michelle Ricks (Mathematics)
Escaping the Poverty Trap
Mentor: Prof. Todd Drumm

Darlene Sheppard (Art) 
Hotel Dingolay-Exploring the Advancement of Sustainability Awareness through Design
Mentors: Victor Dzidzienyo and Patricia Young

Adam Salters (Political Science) 
A Triangulative Analysis of the World Wide Recession and the Negligence of the American Public Using the Capitalist Theory
Mentor: Dr. Abdul Bangura