2023-2024 Cohort

April Mendoza Magana
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Sciences

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Stephanie Seifert

Research Project
Antimicrobial Resistance, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Models that Predict Zoonotic Disease Emergence, and Pathogen Spillover Due to Anthropogenic Land Conversion

Ben McDonald
Physics and Math

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Sukanta Bose 

Research Project
Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matters Candidate

Consuelo Munguia
Psychology & Speech and Hearing

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Hsin-Ya Liao 

Research Project
Bringing Awareness to the Lack of Diversity in Proper Healthcare

Brandon Osegueda
English Education

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Michael Delahoyde 

Research Project
Usage of Rhetoric to Fight the Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation

Jose Policarpio
Mechanical Engineering

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Kaiyan Qiu 

Research Project
Developing Biomedical Devices that are Both Affordable and Accessible while Ensuring Maximum Efficiency in Their Functionality

Tyrique Lewis
Microbiology

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Bonnie Gunn

Research Project
Understanding the Role of CD64 on Monocytes

Geselle Sotelo Mendoza
Microbiology

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Anders Omsland 

Research Project
The Aspect of Microbial Communities in the Soil and Human Gut

Aneesah Mills-Mayanja
Psychology

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Lucas Huckaby 

Research Project
The Effects of Weather on Mood; Behavioral Patterns in Children with Developmental Disorders; Influences of Religion on Behaviors; Mental Health Disorder

Michelle Godfrey
Psychology

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Mariana Amorim 

Research Project
Relationship Quality Between Mothers and Daughters and the Effect on Socioemotional Development

Mya Mackowski
Biochemistry

Faculty Mentor
Dr. Karen Sangunet

Research Project
Studying the Effects of Root Hairs, or Lack Thereof, in Brachypodium Plants