Class of 2014
Chynere Best (Psychology)
Caribbean Cultural Transmission: An Analysis of Second Generation West Indians
Mentor: Dr. Debra Roberts
Aisha Brownlee (Psychology)
Structure vs. Function: The True Detrimental Effects on Black Male Academic Achievement
Mentor: Dr. Jules P. Harrell
Kyle R. Burton (Biology)
Quantitative Analysis of Hippocampal Neurons in Aged Vervet Non-Human Primates: a Potential Model of Early Alzheimer's disease
Mentor: Dr. Mark Burke
Kia L. Byrd (Biology)
The Neuroprotective Effects of IKK Inhibitors on Cytokine Expression in T-Lymphocytes of a Huntingtomn's Disease Patient
Mentor: Dr. Winston Anderson
Virginia S. Cooper (Chemistry)
The Synthesis and Characterization of Some Galloyl Amide Derivatives for Antileisha Studies
Mentors: Dr. Oladapo Bakare & Dr. Clarence M. Lee
Jasmine Felder (Psychology)
Psychohairapy and Emotions: What Emotions and Moods are Represented in Stories About African American Hair?
Mentor: Dr. Afiya Margum
Simone Ferguson (HHPLS)
Differential Sensitivity and Correlation between Measures of Cardiac Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Activity before and After Encounters with Psychological Stimuli
Mentor: Dr. Jules P. Harrell
Olivia Ford (Political Science)
The Cost of Supremacy: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Social and Cultural Effects that are Crippling the People's Republic of China Using the Cultural Selection Theory
Mentor: Dr. Darryl Harris
Ariel Gaines (Biology)
Supernumerary Centrosomes Contribute to Increase in Motility for Cancer Metastasis
Mentor: Dr. Winston Anderson
Melat Gebre (Biology)
Prenatal Valporic Acid Exposure in Rats and its Effects on Serontonergic Axons Innervating the Amygdala
Mentor: Dr. Eva K. Polston
Zakyia Goins-McCants (History)
And Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Education Policy in Louisiana's Public Schools, 1979-2011
Mentor: Dr. J. R. Kerr-Ritchie
Leah Hairston (Psychology)
The Corollary of the 1960 Guatemalan Civil War: Societal Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Mentor: Dr. Maria Roof
Ashley Hill (Psychology)
Breaking Invisible Bonds: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa among African American Women
Mentor: Dr. Alfonso L. Campbell
Lotanna Ikeotuonye (Mathematics)
Mathematical Analysis Modeling of Malaria Transmission in Nigeria
Mentor: Dr. Katharine Gurski
Ines R. Kafando (Biology)
Effects of Pathogenic Serratia marcescens on Pieris rapae Larve
Mentor: Dr. Courtney Robinson
Lorna L. Koumou (Biology)
Analysis of the Microbial Component of Senegalese Dust
Mentor: Dr. Courtney Robinson
Dedriana Lomax (Biology)
Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriocin-Producing Bacteria from Retail Cheddar Cheese
Mentor: Dr. B. Eribo
Blanche Mahop (Mathematics)
Sensitivity Analysis: Extended Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test
Mentor: Dr. K. Gurski
Cydney McGuire (HHPLS)
Applications of Paper Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS)
Mentor: Dr. Vernon Bond
Justin Nalos (English)
Sex and Satire: Responses of Asian American Writers to Stereotyped Identities
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Shinn
Karis M. Norwood (Biology)
The Effects of Dendritic Cell Vaccines on Naive T Cell Trafficking and the Tumor Draining Lymph Node
Mentor: Dr. Michael Lipscomb
Lauren Prince (Mathematics)
Using an SIR Model to Understand the Conditions that Cause Staphylococcus Aureus to Develop Resistance to Certain Treatments
Mentor: Dr. Katharine Gurski
Larry J. Sanders (Political Science)
An Outdated System: The Need for Public Education Reform in Detroit, Michigan
Mentor: Dr. Marilyn Lashley
Olusina Senu-Oke (Economics)
Does FDI Stimulate Economic Growth in Africa?
Mentor: Dr. Cyril Hunte
Neena Speer (Psychology)
Hip Hop and Black Identity: Signs of Complacency
Mentor: Dr. Campbell
Sheneese Thompson (Afro-American Studies)
Black Aesthetics, Mass Media Messaging, and its Effect on Academic Achievement in African American Youth
Mentor: Dr. Gregory E. Carr
Taylor Thompson (Biology)
Identification and Functional Validation of IMP2 Target Genes, [an mRNA binding protein implicated in the etiology of Type 2 Diabetes] analysis
Mentors: Dr. Deidra Wrighting, Harvard and Dr. Winston Anderson, Howard
Jessica C. Williams (Biology)
Delivering a bundle of Compassion: The Life and Work of Dr. Lena Edwards
Mentor: Dr. Fatimah Jackson
Jade Williams (Economics)
Poverty and Politics
Mentor: Dr. Gaminie Maapagala
Ronald K. Williams (Political Science)
Evicting a People: A Triangulative Analysis of Gentrification's Adverse Effects on Black and Latino Communities in the United States Utilizing the Capitalist and Postcolonialist Theories
Mentor: Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura
Aamir Zariwala (Biology)
Examination of Kif23 in Dendritic Cells
Mentor: Dr. Michael Lipscomb