GRE Practice Exam
Gaines Hall 140
9:00am-11:00pm

GRE Quantitative Workshop
Gaines Hall 140
11:00pm-1:00pm

GRE Quantitative Workshop
Gaines Hall 140
9:00am-11:00am

GRE Verbal Workshop
Gaines Hall 140
81100am-1:00pm

GRE Verbal Workshop
Gaines Hall 140
9:00am-1:00pm

GRE Analytical Writing Workshop
Gaines hall 140
11:00am-1:00pm

GRE Analytical Writing Workshop
Gaines Hall 140
9:00am-11:00am

GRE Practice Exam
Gaines Hall 140
11:00am-1:00pm

McNair Catapalooza Booth
10:00am-3:00pm

New Scholars Research Launch (5th cohort)

30 Gaines Hall 9am-12:00pm

Fourth Annual Mcnair Spring Banquet

5:00pm SUB Ballroom D

Kelsey Miller has been accepted into the Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program (NREIP).
She will have a summer internship with the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland. She will be involved in one of the follow projects:
Horizontal Accelerator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQmzqWAWb0
Windblast Lab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtI6y8JMKg
More information about the program http://nreip.asee.org/

Congratulations to Jesse Cook for being elected as the 2011 MSU Homecoming King!

7 McNair Scholars gave oral presentations at the 19th annual UC Berkeley California McNair Scholars Symposium
These students were recognized in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle http://milestones.bozemandailychronicle.com/?p=389308

Dewey Brooke- Analysis of Phospholipase Activity in Adeno-Associated Virus Particles Using
Liquid-Chromatography/Mass-Spectrometry

Shane Close- Accuracy Goals Moderate the Manifestation of Placebo Effects

David Driscoll- Synthesis, Processing, and Performance of Proton-Conducting Membranes for
Regenerative Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems

Kelsey Guffey- Habitat Selectivity of Semi-free Ranging American Plains Bison at the
National Bison Range in Northwest Montana

Rio Gonzalez- Pedagogical Technology: A Guide to the Modern Student's Mind and Classroom

Cameron Robinson- Spatial Recognition in the Ischemic Gerbil: The Effect of Object Exposure
on Performance

Jennifer Thornburg- The Dream of the Rood

The research was completed this summer as part of their participation in the McNair Scholars Program. See "Event Photos" for pictures of the students at the symposium.

Hello! My name is Megumi Moriyama from Tokyo Japan. I am an administrative intern participating in MSU's Long-term Educational Administrators Program (LEAP). LEAP is a year-long professional development program.  Its goals are to help participants improve their English, learn about the U.S. higher education system, and learn about the operations and programming of international programs offices.

My Home Institution where I work is at the Japan Arts Council (National Theatre of Japan). I am interested in communicating with others and learning about other cultures through my internship opportunity and my travel to other US states and countries. I am very interested in learning more about Montana's rich Native American culture. In my free time, I like to participate in sports such as scuba diving, golfing and other outdoor sports.

I am looking forward to meeting MSU's McNair Scholars and getting to know them and discussing their research projects that they are conducting this summer. Please stop by my desk anytime during my internship to say "hi". I am very pleased to be an intern at McNair Scholars Program and excited to meet you.

For more information about the LEAP program http://www.montana.edu/international/training/LEAP/index.htm

Congratulations to our spring 2011 graduating McNair Scholars
Deb Blanchard
Camilla Armijo-Grover
Treacy Gumeson
Dustin Kuipers
Zachary Morris
Beth Renick
Jocee Stirling
Lotus Torre
Francisco Velasco
Juliana Velasco

Francisco Velasco's research highlighted in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle from the MSU Research Celebration
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/article_de2b0ce2-66f0-11e0-8752-001cc4c002e0.html

Zac Morris presents at the 43rd Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering (EEG)

A group of 13 students from MSU-Bozeman traveled to San Francisco over spring break to volunteer with an organization that helps individuals who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. While there, the students – including Yanet Eudave and Yun Kim, pictured here – served more than 8,500 meals to individuals in need. The service trip was part of the university's Breaks Away program. Other students completed volunteer work through BreaksAway in Phoenix, Ariz.; Kansas City, Mo.; Silver City, N.M., and Arcata, Calif. The students collectively served 1,496 hours over spring break. Thanks to all of the students for their efforts!

McNair Scholar Sasha Dingle presents at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research
THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT: WOMEN'S INCREASING ROLE IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION
Sasha Dingle, Applied Psychology Faculty Sponsor: Professor Lori Lawson, MSU Honors College, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
The role women’s empowerment plays in poverty alleviation cannot be overstated. Although rapid population growth is not the only or even the main cause of poverty, it intensifies the problems that characterize underdevelopment. Statistical research has demonstrated the link between raising women’s status in a society and radical social progress, including lower fertility rates. As part of a qualitative method, this project reviewed and analyzed different research studies, case studies, economic theory, and literature. A survey of Montana State University students was conducted to determine assumptions and knowledge base of the issues. Traveling and participating in cultural and volunteer activities around the Dominican Republic helped to illuminate the context of that country’s particular poverty. A confidential efficacy analysis of one of the Dominican Republic’s leading microfinance institutions, and further conversations regarding the Dominican Republic -its specific problems of poverty, racism, discrimination and prostitution, and the interaction among and past efforts made to combat such issues -also informed this project. The importance of the research consists of the global implications of extreme poverty in an interconnected world. Diseases which transcend national boundaries are created by poverty, as is terrorism, illegal immigration and global insecurity. The issue of alleviating extreme poverty is multi-faceted and how to go about creating sustainable development is not entirely clear. Aid efforts over the last century have been ineffective and have unfortunately resulted in donors becoming disillusioned about giving aid. The findings of this project suggest the efficacy of working specifically with women to help entire families and communities rise above the poverty line. It aims to be a component piece of the debate that is currently revising aid to become more effective.