The First McNair Scholars Colloquium SATURDAY

FEBRUARY ‘04

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 5

WASSup?

Special points of interest:

 

 

·         Congratulations to the McNair and CSTEP members  and buddies who were recently recognized at the Multicultural Alliance of Northern New York awards night.  They included Felicia Conde, Jason Cree, Melina Cruz, Ohene Cornelius, Prisca Fall, Kandyce McGill, Shirley Obioha, Steve Peraza, and Toyin Showole.

·         Word has it that Travis Atkinson is training for the Canton marathon. Go for it, Travis!

Dean Eaton Lounge will be the place to be on Saturday, February 28th as our ten senior McNair Scholars share their research. Promoted as the First McNair Scholars Colloquium, the event will feature both poster presentations and individual oral presentations.

Beginning at 2 p.m. McNair Scholars will be standing alongside posters that depict their research. They will be poised to share basic information about the research with colloquium visitors.

At 2:30 there will be some welcoming remarks followed by the announcement of the newly -selected McNair Scholars. The twelve new scholars will be spending eight weeks this summer doing their research and preparing for graduate school examinations.

The remainder of the afternoon will be dedicated to individual presentations. The McNair Scholars will have 20 minutes including time for questions and answers to provide more in-depth information about their research.

 

 

 

their research.

The order of the presentations is as follows: Mr. Jeovanni Guzman, The Predictability of Stock Prices;  Mr. D.M. Ramos, Behind the Black Line; Mr. Travis Babcock, Law v. Culture:Deconstructing the Arguments against Same Sex Marriage; Ms. Kandyce McGill, Who Am I? Constructing Concepts of Self and Gender Identity in the Pacific Islands;Mr. Travis Atkinson, Approximate Confidence Interval Estimation for Beta-Binomial Proportions of Biometric Identification Devices; Ms. Tara Smith, Embodied Text in Peter Greenaway Films; Ms. Prisca Fall, The Placebo Dilemma; Mr Ohene Cornelius, Speaking in Tongues to Speaking over Drums; and Mr. Ian Hubbard, Examination of the Viability of Bioelectric Impedance Analysis (BIA) to Examine Body Condition in Erethizon dorsatum (The North American Porcupine). Ms. Sydney Seifert recently presented her research, entitled Where Have all the Queers Gone? Heteronormativity & Homophobia in the Public School System at the Dialogues Across the Sociological Imagination conference in NYC.