On Oct. 18-19, the McNair Scholars at Delta State University attended the 2019 Florida International University McNair Scholars Research Conference in Miami, Fla. This two-day event allowed scholars to gain access to several professional development opportunities, such as graduate school panels, informative workshops on post-graduate studies, discussing research with scholars from around the country, and presenting their own research.<\/p>\n
The following provides the title of each scholar’s research and faculty mentor:<\/p>\n
Stevena King: \u201cWhat Are the Developmental Delays in Children Whose Mothers Took Prenatal Vitamins During the Pregnancy Term?\u201d Georgian Alexander: \u201cThe Prevalence of Sexual Harassment Toward Male and Female Employees and Evaluate the Reports to Management by Employees Who Have Been Sexually Harassed at Work\u201d Jalen Carney: \u201cUnderstanding Resiliency in Student Veterans and Non-Veteran Students in the Mississippi Delta: A Pilot Study\u201d Denicia Diew: \u201cDepletion of Macrophages with Clodronate Partially Reduces the Progression of Renal Injury in Obese Dahl Salt Sensitive Rats During Prepubertal Obesity\u201d Victoria Granberry: \u201cIs There an Association Between Early Life Under Nutrition, Glutathione, and Liver Metabolism?\u201d Laketha Covington: “Resources Management & Integration Office Business Plan”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Oct. 18-19, the McNair Scholars at Delta State University attended the 2019 Florida International University McNair Scholars Research Conference in Miami, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":583,"featured_media":85215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85214","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\/85214","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=85214"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85244,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85214\/revisions\/85244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMentor: Nakikke Wallace-Johnson, director of career services and placement, Delta State<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMentor: Dr. Tomeka Harbin, chair of the Division of Marketing, Management, and Business Administration, Delta State<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMentor: Dr. Natasha Barnes, assistant professor of counselor education, Delta State <\/em><\/p>\n
\nMentor: Dr. Jan Michael Williams, associate professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMentor: Dr. David P. Ferguson, assistant professor, Department of Kinesiology, Michigan State University<\/em><\/p>\n