The work of two 1998-99 student groups will culminate within the span of a week as the scholars in the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder present their research discoveries in the 1999 Summer Colloquium.
The presentations, with topics ranging from art history to molecular, cellular and developmental biology, will be held Thursday and Friday, July 29-30, from 9 a.m. to noon in Hale 270, and Aug. 5-6 in Duane Physics G1B20.
The McNair Program prepares selected ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder undergraduates to study at the doctoral level. The federally funded program is named in honor of the African-American astronaut who died in the 1986 space shuttle explosion. The program is administered by ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ's Student Academic Services Center.
Evelyn Hu-DeHart, history professor, chair of the department of ethnic studies, and director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA) at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder, will give the keynote address on July 29 at 9 a.m.
For more information visit the McNair office in Willard Administrative Center, room 400, between 8-5 p.m., or call 492-5660 or visit the web site at .
An agenda of the presentations is attached.
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
1999 Summer Colloquium Agenda
(Note: starting times may vary)
Thursday, July 29, 9-noon, Hale 270
9:00 Opening Keynote—Dr. Evelyn Hu-DeHart
9:15 Carol Komadina Parentea (Art History)—"History of Installation Art Beyond Modernism: Searching for Philosophical and Aesthetic Similarities with Christian Sacred Art"
9:45 Michael Tanner (Geology)—"Sedimentological Controls on Permeability Distribution in the Avon Park Formation of the Floridan Aquifer"
10:15 Natalie Edwards (Speech, Hearing, and Communication Disorders)-- "The Difference Between Phonological Systems of Identical and Fraternal Twins"
10:45 Noah Youngelson (Sociology)—"Anti-Catholic Rhetoric: The 19th Century Secular Press and its Response to Irish Catholic Immigration"
11:15 Laurie Herrli (EPOB Biology and Anthropology)—"Do Bryophytes Increase Fine Feed Root Mortality in Rocky Mountain Montane Ecosystems?"
12:00 Class Photo at the north stairway of Hale
Friday, July 30, 9-noon, Hale 270
9:00 Samatra Doyle (Women's Studies)—"Fusion as a Correlate of Lesbian Domestic Violence: An Examination of Case Studies"
9:30 Wayne Tomac (Architecture & Planning)—"New Urbanism and Inner Cities: Building Community in Inner Cities"
10:00 Joe Zerber (History)—"An Exploration of Satire in the 'Letters of Obscure Men' and its Influence on the Reform Climate of Pre-Reformation Germany"
10:30 Andrea Peterson (Pre-Nursing and Communication)—"The Effects of Ethnicity and Religious Beliefs on Doctor-Patient Communication as Perceived by African-American, Middle-aged Women"
11:00 Rebecca Boyd (International Affairs and Political Science)—"The Overseas Business Challenge of the 21st Century: Economic Determinate Factors and their Relationships to Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa"
11:30 Closing Keynote—TBA
11:45 Director's Comments—Ramona Beal
Thursday, Aug. 5, 1-4 p.m., Duane Physics G1B20
1:15 Judy Choi (Psychology/English)—"Asian American Students: Parental Absence and Cohort Effect on Grades and Behavior"
1:45 Colleen S. Martin (Engineering, EPO Biology and Classics) — "Phytoremediation: Identifying Hyperaccumulating Plants Growing on Heavy Metal and Chromium Contaminated Sites in the Denver Metro Area and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado"
2:15 Laura Segrue (Environmental Studies/Psychology)—"Academic Excellence Program's Summer Ready Freshman Orientation: A Strategy to Promote Academic and Social Integration"
2:45 Melissa Woodvine (MCD Biology, English/Biochemistry)—"The International Baccalaureate Program at George Washington High School: Is it Creating Educational Inequality?"
Friday, Aug. 6, 1-4 p.m., Duane Physics G1B20
1:00 Tawanna French (Psychology)—"Resolution of Diagnosis of Mothers with Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children"
1:30 Kim Henderson (EPO Biology)—"Dopamine's Affect on Reproduction in Short Day Sibetrian Hamsters"
2:00 Stefan De la Garza (MCD Biology/English)—"The Reproductive State of Rat Mammary Gland Explants Affects the Rate of Infection of Aggressive Human Breast Cancer Cells"
2:30 Lupe Jauregui (Anthropology)—"Renaissance=Michaelangelo"
3:00 Joe Lugo (English)—"What the Freedom Texas Slaves Received Was Different from What they Expected. Why?"