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A Message from the McNair Scholars Program

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Counting Color: Biracial Activism in the Black Lives Matter Era

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Retrospective and Anticipated Regret for Self and Other: Implications for...

All individuals hold a degree of uncertainty or doubt in their decisionmaking process. As theorized through the notion of counterfactual thinking, we frequently reflect on the alternatives or...

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Bury Your Gays: History, Usage, and Context

Bury Your Gays is a literary trope that has appeared in media across genre since the end of the 19th century. Works using the trope will feature a same-gender couple and with one of the lovers dying...

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Statistical Modeling of Multiple Sclerosis Patients’ Cognitive Data

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a devastating autoimmune disease that affects a person’s physical and cognitive function. Immune system cells which normally attack pathogens and foreign cells instead...

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The Effect of CRF2 Receptor Regulation on Depressive-Like Behaviors During...

There are many times in which stress plays an influential role in alcohol addiction, but it is most influential during the time of relapse, in which there are cycles of heightened anxiety, depressive...

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Characterizing the Cellular Function of Protein Phosphatase 1 Isoforms

A protein phosphatase is an enzyme that removes a phosphate group from a specific amino acid residue on a target protein substrate. This protein phosphatase-regulated dephosphorylation is an important...

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Men of the Fur Trade, ca. 1620-1770s

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The Effect of Social Exclusion on Perceptions of Poverty and American Identity

The current study aims to unveil how social exclusion and physical vulnerability influence personal perception. We hypothesized that social exclusion (versus acceptance and a neutral control) would...

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Denying Atrocities: Comparing Policies and Pressures in Turkey and Japan

Denialism has long been considered an aspect of genocide, and as Stanton (1996) argues, denialism is its final stage. After a genocidal act or other widespread act of violence, perpetrators will often...

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The Black Church and Communal Empowerment

In 1892, the state of Grand Rapids, Michigan recognized Messiah Missionary Baptist church as the first Black church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From 1892 until this present moment in time, the Black...

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Non-moral Considerations on the Civil Rights Narrative

In this paper I argue that in the service of their political agenda, many leaders of the recent past have made decisions that, even today, serve to confuse the racial dialectic and slow civil rights...

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The Anti-Islam Narrative in Diderot’s Entry “Sarrasins” for the Encyclopédie...

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The Effect of CRF2 Activation on Anxiety-like Behaviors During Prolonged...

Alcoholism is estimated to cost the United States a quarter of a trillion dollars annually, including the deaths of 88,000 individuals. Recovering alcoholics often experience a multitude of withdrawal...

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Genetic Connectivity of Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes in Michigan

Migration can be the mechanism through which gene flow occurs allowing for increased genetic diversity (Slatkin, 1985). When habitats are fragmented, genetic diversity between populations declines...

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Grand Valley State University McNair Scholars who have received their PhD as...

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