2008 Scholars
Scholar updates – current as of Fall 2009.
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(click on a research title to link to scholar research abstracts and posters)
Nicki Doherty
Mentor: Dr. Deb Poole
Research topic:
High Impact Behavior Disorders and Social
Issues: Is There a Need for a Translational Research Center in
Michigan?
Nicki is finishing up her last semester at CMU and will graduate this coming December.
Mariah Hanson
Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Schisa
Research topic:
Identification of Genes Regulating RNP
Foci Formation in Oocytes of Caenorhabditis elegans
Mariah is finishing up her final year at CMU, she continues to do research with Dr. Schisa and is busy applying to Ph.D. programs this fall.
Courtney Hardwick
Mentor: Dr. Angela Haddad
Research topic:
Race in the Classroom: A Case Study of Students of Color
Attending a Predominantly White Institution
Courtney is in the first year of her master's program in Urban Education Policy at Brown University.
Angela Lentz
Mentor: Dr. Elaine Betts
Research topic: The Effect of an Intensive Diabetes Foot
Care Educational Program on Patient Knowledge and Adherence to a
Foot Care Protocol
Ang is in the first year of a dual program at the University of Kansas - she is working on her Doctorate of Physical Therapy and Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Science.
Heather Minkel
Mentor: Dr. Justin Oh-Lee
Research topic:
Motor Response Complications and Cycline-Dependent
Kinase 5 (Cdk5) Neuroadaptations in an Animal Model of
Parkinson’s Disease
Heather is in the first year of her Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at the University of Alabama.
Eric Schulz
Mentor: Dr. Ed Hinck
Research topic:
The Art of Address: Applying Sun-tzu’s Art
of War to the Inaugural Addresses of Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-jeou
Tim Stalker
Mentor: Dr. Won Paik
Research topic:
U.S.-Sino Dialogue on African Affairs: A Necessary Reality
Charmane Thurmand
Mentor: Dr. Minghui Chai
Research topic:
NMR Studies on Silver(I) Ion Complex of G2
PAMAM Dendrimer
Char is finishing up her final semester at CMU and is busy applying to graduate school in Higher Education and Student Affairs - she just got back from a grad school visit to the University of Connecticut.
Joe Witzke
Mentor: Dr. Carrie Euler and Dr. David
Rutherford
Research topic:
Jesuit Education: A Comparative Study of
the Collegio Romano and the First Jesuit College at Messina
Joe is finishing up his final year at CMU and is busy applying to graduate programs this fall.