Research Projects

During the summer of 2010 the following exciting and challenging research projects took place across NMU’s campus by McNair scholars:

Kate Abrahamsson

• Faculty Mentor: Erich Ottem, Ph.D.
• Research Project: The role of brain derived neurotrophic factor in the onset of neuromuscular disease.

Kurt Benckendorf

• Facutly Mentor: Alec Lindsay, Ph.D.
• Research Project: Avian Recording via Automated Audio Monitoring

Paula Fata

• Faculty Mentor: Dale Kapla, Ph.D.
• Research Project: The Constitutionality of Firearm Prohibition on Universities of Higher Education.

Hunter Harig

• Faculty Mentor: Jackie Bird, DVM, Ph.D.
• Research Project: Prevalence of Echinococcus granulosus in wolves killed in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan over multiple years.

Ryan Haskell

• Faculty Mentor: Robert Goodrich, Ph.D.
• Research Project: Habsburg Immigration to Michigan

Nancy Kenok

• Faculty Mentor: Alex Ruuska, Ph.D.
• Research Project: World Heritage Sites and Tourism in Peru and the United States.

Joe Masters

• Faculty Mentor: Timothy Hilton, Ph.D.
• Research Project: Targeting Resources for Paroled Native American on the Reservations

Emily Perdue

• Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Allen. Ph.D.
• Resarch Project: Tracing the Origins and Significance of Political Leadership

Andrea Selmser

• Faculty Mentor: Debra Morley, MD, Ph.D.
• Research Project: Traumatic Brain Injury Correlation and with headache and other cognitive and psychological variables.

Linda Sirois

• Faculty Mentor: Leslie Larkin, Ph.D.
• Research Project: 20th Century African American Literature

Emily Sprengelmeyer

• Faculty Mentor: Alan Rebertus, Ph.D.
• Research Project: Spruce budworm infestation and woodland caribou activity on the Slate Islands

Quentin Sprengelmeyer

• Facutly Mentor: Alan Rebertus, Ph.D.
• Research Project: Distributal patterns of arctic disjunt flora in relation to geology, topography, and microclimate on the Slate Islands, Lake Superior

Eva Statler

• Faculty Mentor: Mohey Mowafy Ph.D.
• Research Project: Orthorexia
• Eva also worked with Adam Prus, Ph.D. during the summer of 2010 as a research assistant, working in the Psychopharmacology lab on a radial arm maze.