#96-10-24
For Release: 10-23-96
Contact: Peter Bailley

On Saturday, Oct. 26, at 1:30 p.m., Ferris Lounge, Seymour Union, Knox College, seven Knox McNair Scholars will give the presentations of their summer research projects. The presenters and their topics are as follows.

Danielle Rash, of Denver CO: "Changing Tides: An Examination of Court-Mandated Desegregation in the Denver Public School from the 1960's to the Present Day"

Greg Rhein, of Spring Grove, IL: "The Comproof: Trying to Prove Mathematical Theorems While Emulating Human Thought"

Lora Honoroff, of Glenwood IL: "Models of Child Maladjustment: Parental, Child, and Interactional Causation"

Kim Crespin, of Albuquerque, NM: "How Do Minority First Generation College Students Choose the Institution That They Will Attend?"

Valentina Gamboa, of Chicago IL: "Latina Images"

Aaron Shaw, of Houston, TX: "Postanesthesia Nausea and Vomiting"

Kamesha Jackson, of Detroit, MI: "A Collaborative Study of Stage Composition and Movement"

During the summer following their sophomore year, McNair Fellows conduct research with faculty at Knox or at another institution over a ten-week period. The McNair Summer Research Experience allows students to work closely with a faculty mentor, exposing them to the process of research and enhancing their credentials for advanced undergraduate research at Knox, as well as for graduate work.

The McNair Early Entry Fellowship Program is part of the US Department of Education's Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. The program is named in memory of Ronald Ervin McNair, a physicist and NASA astronaut who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.