When Sarah Beckett Cleveland ’19 (CLAS), a biological sciences major, wanted to get involved in science research, she wasn’t sure she could make it work. She was financing her own education through academic-year jobs, and helping to support her mother in her hometown of Windsor.
But she heard about the McNair Scholars program for undergraduate research, and it opened up a door.
“The program seeks to put people like me, who might be funding their education on their own, or are a first-generation student, in a place where they can afford to have incredible experiences like this,” she says.
At the sixth annual McNair Scholars poster exhibition this week, 19 rising juniors and seniors from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering, and the College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources presented the results so far of their summer research projects. The projects ranged from genetics and immunology to muscle physiology and an EEG-operated robot. Continue reading
Vincent Pistritto, a chemistry major and student working in 
