Leah Adams

Major: Animal Science -Equine

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kris Hiney

Graduation Date: December 2008

Research Supervisor: Dr. Charles Love, Texas A & M University, College of Veterinary Medicine

Research Topic: A Comparison of Two Different Viability Tests in Stallion Spermatozoa

Denise Burce

Major: Communications And Agricultural Education

Faculty Mentor and Research Supervisor:
Dr. Timothy J. Buttles

Graduation Date: May 2010

Research Topic: A Content Analysis of messages in Agricultural Education Magazine related to improving the professions image in order to recruit students into the profession

Ed Figi

Major: Political Science and International Studies

Faculty Mentor and Research Supervisor:
Dr. Neil Kraus

Graduation Date: May 2009

Research Topic: NoChild Left Behind (NCLB) Has Negatively Affected Teacher Quality

Lisa Hermanson

Major: Sociology

Faculty Mentor and Research Supervisor:
Dr. Tricia Davis

Graduation Date: December 2008

Research Topic: The Structure of Power: Think Tanks and Foreign Policy

Derek Husmoen

Major: Agricultural Engineering

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Butler

Research Supervisor: Dr. Charles Clanton, Univ. of MN

Research Intrest: College Students Emission Rates from Soil Manure Mixtures in a Controlled Ennvironment

Graduation Date: December 2008

Vang Lor

Major: Marketing Communications

McNair Mentor: Blake Fry

Research Supervisor: Dr. Phil George

Research Topic: Predictors of Academic Success of First Year Freshman

Graduation Date: May 2009

Devin Underwood

Major(s): Physics and Mathematics

Mentor: Dr. Earl Blodgett

Research Fellowship: 2007 MIT Summer REU: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science RLE Nanostructures Laboratory

Research Interest: Materials Science, Plasmonics

Graduation Date: May 2009

Megan Wisbar

Major: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Mentor and Research Supervisor: Dr. Annette Klemp

Research Topic: Success of Short-Term Preparation for the TOEFL by Japanese College Students

Graduation Date: May 2009