2024 McNair Scholars Program

2024 McNair Scholars Program

Alexa Contero UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Alexa Contero Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Lawndale, CA
Major: Psychology and Chicano/a Studies
Mentor: Dr. Meghan Miller
Research Interests: The Cost of Delay: ADHD, Latino Youth, and the Need for Early Intervention

Alonso Rodriguez Villalobos McNair Scholars Program 2

Alonso Rodriguez Villalobos Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Sonoma, CA
Major: Psychology & Spanish
Mentor: Dr. Michael Singh
Research Interests: 

Andrea Navarro Macias UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

 Andrea Navarro Macias  Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Fresno, CA
Major: Psychology and Chicana/o Studies
Mentor: Dr. Dulce W. Westberg
Research Interests: Examining How Racial/Ethnic Challenges are Narrated in Relation to Racial/Ethnic Identity

Anita Kim UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Anita Kim  Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: San Francisco, CA 
Major: Biotechnology
Mentor: Dr. Qizhi Gong
Research Interests: Immune Cell Infiltration in the Olfactory Bulb of Mice Infected with SARS-CoV-2

Jannet Noriega UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Jannet Noriega  Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Salinas, CA 
Major: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Mentor: Dr. Daniel A Starr
Research Interests: Investigating the C. elegans giant KASH protein ANC-1's interaction with motor protein kinesin-1 

Julissa Diaz Garcia UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Julissa Diaz Garcia Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Ceres, CA 
Major: Psychology and Linguistics
Mentor: Dr. Katharine Graf Estes
Research Interests: Do parent acculturation relate to how Mexican-American parents interact with infant boys and girls?

 

Kaylianne Jordan UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Kaylianne Jordan Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Vallejo, CA 
Major: Viticulture & Enology
Mentor: Dr. Javier Fernandez Salvador
Research Interests: Modernizing EVOO Quality Standards with Advanced Chemical Markers

Ronald E. McNair

Kristina Leslie

Hometown: Davis, CA
Major: Biological Sciences
Mentor: Dr. Allen Gao
Research Interests: 

Leslie Figueroa-Borja UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Leslie Figueroa-Borja  Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Riverside, CA
Major: History Concentration in Latin American Region
Minor: Latin American Studies & Theater and Dance
Mentor: Dr. Marian Schlotterbeck
Research Interests: Raíces Inundadas: The Historical and Collective Memory of Areneros, a former community in Chalatenango, El Salvador

Lizbeth Santillan UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Lizbeth Santillan

Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Major: Physics
Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Curro 
Research Interests: Analysis of Ce2Zr2O7 in Search of Quantum Spin Liquids with NMR

Maria Sanchez Segura UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Maria Sanchez Segura

Hometown: San Francisco, CA 
Major: History and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies 
Mentor: Dr. AndrésReséndez
Research Interests: Gendering Communism: The Discrimination of Mexican Women within El Partido Comunista Mexicano during the Cold War Era.

Miguel Soto UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Miguel Soto

Hometown: Ventura, CA
Major: Molecular & Medical Microbiology 
Mentor: Dr. Yi Wang
Research Interests: Developing Genetic Tools for Engineering Clostridium carboxidivorans P7 to Enhance Syngas Fermentation for Biofuel Production.

Nadya Mejia UC Davis MCNair Scholars Program

Nadya Mejia Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Truckee, CA 
Major: Psychology
Mentor: Dr. Katherine Graf Estes
Research Interests: Do parent acculturation relate to how Mexican-American parents interact with infant boys and girls?

Nancy Mendez UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Nancy Mendez  Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Oceanside, CA 
Major: Global Disease Biology
Mentor: Dr. Aldrin Gomes
Research Interests: The Effect of Electrophoresis Gel Run Time on the Sensitivity of Western Blotting

Noah Sanchez UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Noah Sanchez  Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Fresno, CA 
Major: Chicana/o Studies
Mentor: Dr. Natalia Caporale
Research Interests: Mobilizing jotería studies in higher education/student affairs research and practice: A systematic literature review 

Obert Vongsavanh UC Davis McNair Scholars Program

Obert Vongsavanh  Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Millbrae, CA 
Major: Mechanical Engineering 
Mentor: Dr. Mohsen Habibi
Research Interests: Overview and Optimization of Direct Sound Printing (DSP) Technology

Ronald E. McNair

Samantha De Alba Sanchez  Andrew Ramirez

Hometown: Bakersfield, CA
Major: Cognitive Science with an Emphasis in Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Yuuko Uchikoshi Tonkovich
Research Interests: “Así No!”: Linguistic Strategies and Language Choice of Dual Language Learners in Free Play with Mothers