On Oct. 4-5, the McNair Scholars at Delta State University attended the second annual Mississippi McNair Symposium at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. This two-day event allowed scholars to gain access to several professional development opportunities, such as attending graduate school panels, discussing research with scholars from around the state, and presenting their own research.<\/p>\n
DSU scholars\u2019 summer research presented at the conference, and their faculty mentor:<\/p>\n
Khyla Grant: \u201cStudent Wellness Research\u201d Sykina Butts: \u201cDriver Performance & Attention: The Effects of Automation on Driver Alertness\u201d Jalen Carney: \u201cUnderstanding Resiliency in Student Veterans and Non-Veteran Students in the Mississippi Delta: A Pilot Study\u201d Denicia Diew: “Depletion of Macrophages with Clodronate Partially Reduces the Progression of Renal Injury in Obese Dahl Salt Sensitive Rats During Prepubertal Obesity\u201d On Oct. 4-5, the McNair Scholars at Delta State University attended the second annual Mississippi McNair Symposium at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":583,"featured_media":84902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-graduate-and-continuing-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84908,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901\/revisions\/84908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMentor: Dr. Georgianna Mann, associate professor of nutrition and hospitality management, University of Mississippi<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMentor: Dr. Joel Cooper, research associate professor, cognition and neural science, University of Utah<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMentor: Dr. Natasha Barnes, assistant professor of counselor education, Delta State University<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMentor: Dr. Jan Michael Williams, associate professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"