The CSU TRIO McNair Scholars Program prepares talented and eligible undergraduates for doctoral studies through involvement in research, seminars, advising, preparation for the Graduate Record Examination, and other intensive scholarly activities. Students who participate in the program come from disadvantaged backgrounds, show strong academic potential in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) disciplines, and are committed to pursuing the Ph.D. degree. The program is named after the late Dr. Ronald E. McNair an African American physicist and NASA astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion in 1986. This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
Research from 2024
The Origin of ISIS and its Founding Father, Nadia Cruz
Generating a Dataset for Deep Reinforcement Learning, Lewis Davis
A Guide to Ensemble Styled Machine Learning with JavaScript and Brain.js, Michael Angelo De La Cruz Ortiz
Thought Quantification with a Single-Channel EEG BCI System, Michael Angelo De La Cruz Ortiz
Examining the Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence, Trauma, Attachment, and Help-seeking Self-Efficacy, Dalton Hundt
The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Child Development and Communication: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Tyler Johnson
The Examination of the Forbidden Fruit, Dominique Ryder
Assessment of the Intersectionality of Muslim and Queer Identities, Elisha Sledge
Research from 2022
Factors Contributing to Health Disparities in the African American Community, My’Jia Brown
The Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Extraversion, Angel Ciccarelli
Adverse Childhood Experiences in Relation to Substance abuse and the Moderating Role, Sydni Davila
The Evolution and Morphological Change in Keratella cochlearis, Semra Dervisevic
SFRP-4, TLRs, And EVs Signaling Play Critical Roles in Type Two Diabetes, Anthony K. Graley
Understanding the Role of Sleep and Personality on Emerging Adult Mental Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dywayne Johnson
Ground Level interactions in the Panama Canal Zone, Benjamin King
Racial Experiences, Achievement, and Academic Pressure, India J. Matthews
Pool Boiling: Ambient Pressure Increase to Enhance Heat Transfer, Forrest Osborn
Exploring Dance/Movement Therapy: African American Adolescents and Trauma, Sadie Pinckney
Dual-Trauma and Assortative Mating Associations Among Dating Young Adults, Madison Slayton
The Impact of Soil Compaction on Soil Moisture Dynamics of Red Maple, Norway Maple, and Honey Locust Tree Species in Urban Environments, Cyenna Ulrich-Cech
Research from 2021
Phonological Interventions for Children with Speech Sound Disorders, Kylie Armstead
Direct File of Youthful Offenders in Florida, Onetha Belgrave
Streaming Video Content in the Time of COVID-19, Thyra Chaney
MBTI and Personality's Academic Preferences, Jessica M. Disla
Do Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Rates of Depression?, Donna R. Erwin
The Role of BATF2 in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis and Multiple Sclerosis, Maria Habean and Rachel Tinkey
Fabrication of Nylon-6/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composite for Sodium Ion Quantification, Orlando Lopez
Prevention of Mild Cognitive Decline in Aging Senior Citizens, Marissa McIntosh
High-Speed Video Acquisition and Analysis of Taekwondo Kicks, Alexis Merk
Physics of Martial Arts: Incorporation of Angular Momentum to Model Body Motion and Strikes, Alexis Merk and Andrew Resnick
Solar Thermal Dish Storage System Project: A Novel Receiver Experiment Model, Forrest Osborn
Metabolic Outcomes of Anaplerotic Dodecanedioic Acid Supplementation in Very Long Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (VLCAD) Deficient Fibroblasts, Igor Radzikh, Erica Fatica, Jillian Kodger, Rohan Shah, Ryan Pearce, and Yana Sandlers
Development of Childhood Friendships in Children Ages Four to Five, Hannah Tackett
The Impact Emotions Have on Recall, Sadie-Marie Wright
Research from 2020
Understanding Sexual Health Information Access for Gender Minority Adolescents with Qualitative Focus Groups, Andrea Arnold
Use of Optical Tweezers and Trapping Cilia, Cleveland State University
Determination of Lithium Ions in E-Cigarettes Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES) Technique, Kevin Folk, Rebecca Leibold, Ola Abuhamdeh, and Mallorie Boron
Ohio County’s Level of Corona Virus Cases in Relation to Demographic Characteristics, Michail Haswani
Empowering Women: An Examination of How the Activism of Kathleen Cleaver, Elaine Brown, Erica Huggins, and Angela Davis Transformed the Black Panther Party, Lamar J. McCornell
Effects of the Dysregulation of PANCR Regarding the PITX2 Gene in the Eye, Mohamed Najjar
The Role of Intergenerational Mentoring As a Tool for Matriculation of Minoritized Womxn in Higher Education Completion, Camilya Williams
Research from 2019
The Effects of Large vs Small Wave Stimuli on the Swim Distance of African Clawed Toads (Xenopus laevis), Tatiana Ally, Katarina Tomac, Adam Syed, Jackson Casteel, and Kristy Tachji
Electrophysiology of Repetition Priming for Pseudowords and Words, Ashley Banks and Megan Farrell
The Effects of Personality on Dyadic Discussions of Dating Violence, Kayla Barillas
Therapies Used to Treat School-Aged Victims of Sexual Abuse, Ariel Bell
First Generation Students and the Influence of Support Resources, Nautica Bell
The Contributing Factors of the Retention of Math Corps Cleveland Participants, Saiida Bowie-Little
The Role of Future Time Perspective and Role Identity in Work Behaviors, Kiara Gray
How Various Forms of Microaggressions Impact Identity Development, Ashley Guilford
Variability and Stability of Gait in Stoke Survivors, Jemima Kennedy and Hala Osman
Optimization of Isolation of O-Linked Glycopeptides, Juwan Lee, Earnest James, and Victoria Rich
The Role of STEM Faculty in Supporting African American Females in Their Courses, Briana Nichols
Random Linear Network Coding Simulations, R.J. Pereira-Castillo
How Does Knocking Down Specific Genes Cause Dysregulation in Metabolic Pathways?, Jasline S. Rosario
The Quality of Online Sex and Health Information for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth, Maranda Santoya
An Examination of the Relationship between Humiliation and Social Participation, Whitney Tyree
Research from 2018
Roles of H3v in Trypanosoma brucei, Sandra Haswani
Indication of Abdominal Wound Complication within Breast Cancer Reconstruction, Taylor Lawson
Perception of Time and Post-Surgery Physical Rehabilitation, Karmen Love
The Use of Retinoic Acid to Promote Atrial and Ventricular “like” cells to Aid in Atrial Fibrillation Research, Nautica McCully
Treatment of non-epithelial vaginal cells from Lysyl Oxidase like one knockout mice (LOXL 1) with nanoparticles (NPs), Priya Patel
Dodecanedioic Acid Treatment in VLCAD Fibroblasts, Igor Radzikh
Simulation of abiotic hurricane effects on lotic meiofauna abundance and composition, Jamil Wilson
A Study Inquiry of the Impact of the Mother-Daughter Relationship with Teen Pregnancy, Klarissa Zeno
Research from 2017
The Effects of Cell Cycle Position on Skeletal Myoblast Differentiation or Apoptosis, Asma Saleh and Briana Boslett
Research from 2016
The Effects of Superior Laryngeal Nerve lesion on Swallowing Kinematics and Airway Protection, Saja Abid and Rebecca Z. German
Effect of parental communication on adjustment of typically developing children with an atypically developing sibling, Christina Adkins and Meghan Murray
Effect of hypoxic conditions on skeletal myoblasts, Abdo Boumitri and Shuai Zhao
Biostatistical Analysis on the Effects of the Circadian Clock & Glucose Genes on Different Feeding Regimens, Rana Faraj and Nikkhil Velingkaar
Computing Human Arm Stiffness for the Purpose of Robotic Simulation, Nicholas Gehler and Philip Sesco
The Use of iPad Pros as an Assistive Device in Occupational Therapy, Osorio Lana
Dialects Accents and Intelligence: A Study on Dialectal Perceptions, Taylor Moore
Effect of Calorie Restriction on Circadian Rhythms of Glycolytic Enzymes in Mice, Enas A. Muhammad, Artem Astafev, and Kuldeep Makwana
The identification of anti-cancer molecular targets of COX-2 inhibitor Nimesulide, Yuridia Olivera Ortiz and Nethrie D. Idippily
How does educational opportunities influence decisions for Nigerian girls and the society?, Shalonda Swanson
Bioinformatic Analysis of the Sodium Hydrogen Exchanger Protein in Plasmodium yoelii, Jamira Virk and Raghavendra Yadavalli
Research from 2015
Effect of Accelerometer Based Feedback on Paretic Upper Extremity Amount of Use and Quality of Movement: A Case Study, Mishgan Abdullah, Nathan Pohl, and Amber Kuehn
Balance training application of a systematic framework for clinical decision making in therapeutic gaming for older adults, Brian Boccieri
Investigating Rhoptry Gene Conservation between Plasmodium yoelii and Plasmodium falciparum using the Polymerase Chain Reaction for DNA Amplification, Brooke Burkhalter
Distribution of Sphaeriid Clams in Lake Erie Twenty-five Years After Invasion of Dreissena, Michael Keller
Mitochondrial DNA Structure of Pyganodon grandis (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the Lake Erie Watershed and Selected Locations in its Northern Distribution, Robert A. Krebs, Brian D. Allen, Na'Tasha M. Evans, and David T. Zanatta
Characterization of the detailed interaction interface between T. brucei telomere proteins TRF and TIF2, Jennifer Kungle, John Sabljic, and Tia Nikova
Cultural Differences in Coping and Depression between Individuals of Middle-Eastern and Non-Arab Backgrounds, Khadeja Najjar
Statistical Analysis of DASI Questionnaire and Modeling the Prediction of Heart Failure Risk in Patients, Christian Negron
Enhancement of Solar Energy Conversion in Bio-derived Cells via Side Selective Modification of Photosystem I, Uchechukwu Obiako and Evan Gizzie
Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy, David Ian Pendleton
Dual Stimuli Response Frequency and Stimulus Choice of the African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis, when presented with two stimuli, Mingo Rolince, Heidi Pignolet, and Alexa Hoy
Designing Tuftsin Conjugate for Directing Antimicrobial Ionophores to Macrophages, Sokhna Seck and Zeenat Razvi
Nitrosylation of S100A8/ A9 protein complex by inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase, Kia Smith
Research from 2014
Homing by Path Integration When a Locomotion Trajectory Crosses Itself, Naohide Yamamoto, Jayleen A. Meléndez, and Derek T. Menzies
Research from 2013
Differences in Population Structure Estimated Within Maternally- and Paternally-inherited Forms of Mitochondria in Lampsilis Siliquoidea (Bivalvia: Unionidae), Robert A. Krebs, W. Calvin Borden, Na'tasha M. Evans, and F. Paul Doerder
Occupational Therapy Students' Development of Therapeutic Communication Skills During a Service-Learning Experience, S. Margaret Maloney and Kristen Griffith
Research from 2012
Normalizing for Noise Removal from Electrocardiogram Signals, Dominique Diamond Brooks and Daniel J. Simon
Characteristics Indicative of the Likelihood of Leaving Open-Ended Comments on an Organizational Survey, Astrid Jennifer Hernandez and Michael Horvath
Mite DNA in Mantle Clips, Robert A. Krebs, Brian D. Allen, and Na'Tasha M. Evans
