Current Scholars

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

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

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

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: ChemistryMentor: Dr. Brittany White-MathieuResearch Title: Probing the Death of a Cell

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Linguistics and SpanishMentor: Dr. Casey RoarkResearch 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, 2024Major: BioengineeringMentor: Dr. Linqing LiResearch Title: Phase Separated Dex-MA hydrogel degradation on controlled cancer drug release

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

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

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

University of New Hampshire McNair Scholar, 2024Major: Genetics and FrenchMentor: Dr. Feixia ChuResearch 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, 2024Major: AnthropologyMentor: 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, 2024Major: Biomedical Science and World LanguagesMentor: Dr. Elizabeth HarveyResearch Title: Syndiniales Dinospores' Metabolic Strategies for Survival and Infectivity in the Absence of a Dinoflagellate Host