This special report was written by American
Indian undergraduate students in the Initiative for Minority Student
Development (IMSD) program through American Indian Research Opportunities
(AIRO), a Montana State University-Bozeman department funded through the Office
of the President and through grants from federal agencies. The IMSD
program is funded through grant # 1-R25 gm 56806-01 from the Minority
Opportunities in Research Division of the National Institute of General Medical
Sciences.
The following IMSD students
contributed to this report:
Jennifer Show, senior majoring in
psychology;
Vanessa Watts, senior majoring in
bio-med;
Kasey Nichols, senior majoring in
family health sciences;
Jessyca Small, senior majoring in
psychology;
Jewel Payne, senior majoring
in nutrition;
Jace Harwood, senior majoring in
Chemical Engineering;
Raelene Zospah, junior majoring in
Biochemistry;
Ryon Sun Rhodes, sophomore
majoring in microbiology;
Woody Starr, junior in
biomed and
Michele Calftail who graduated in
August in pschology.
Dr. Jim McMillan, the Dean of the College
of Letters and Sciences at MSU-Bozeman serves as the Principal
Investigator of the IMSD grant and Sara L. Young, AIRO Director, serves as the
program director. John Watts, the Assistant AIRO Director, oversees the
summer writing project. Dr. Alex (Mike) Babcock, Psychology professor and
IMSD researcher, also provided assistance to the project. Wendell
LeftHand is the AIRO webmaster. Terry
Driscoll of the Burns Telecommunication Center provides technical
assistance on the website development.
A special thanks goes to Clifton A. Poodry, Ph.D., Director
of the Divsion of Minority Opportunities in Research of the National Institute
of General Medical Sciences at NIH for all the support he has given to the
MSU-Bozeman IMSD students and staff!
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