Seven CU-Boulder students in the McNair Scholars Program came out on top this year in the oral presentation competition at the Rocky Mountain McNair Scholars Research Symposium and Graduate Education Conference held April 14-16.
The fifth annual conference, sponsored by CU-Boulder, Colorado State University, the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Wyoming, featured students from 28 institutions.
Shreka Anderson, an anthropology major from Denver, took first place in the Prospectus section. Justin Rosenthal, a Spanish major from Boulder, took second place. Psychology majors Demis Glasford from Levittown, N.Y., and William Kermisch from Ft. Lauderdale tied for third in the same category.
In the Completed Project category, Tamra Higgins, a biochemistry major from Loveland, won second place and Daemian McGill, an English major from New Orleans, tied for third place.
Anitra Barela, a communication major from Denver, received third prize in the Progress category.
McNair is a federally funded TRIO program primarily designed to prepare low-income, first-generation college students and undergraduates from ethnic groups underrepresented in graduate education to purse the Ph.D. It is administered by the Student Academic Services Center. The program is named after Ronald E. McNair, an African-American astronaut whose second mission on the Challenger in 1986 ended in a fatal explosion.
For more information, stop by the McNair office in Willard 400, or visit the web site at .