McNair Monday

Every Monday during our Summer Research Institute, we are celebrating McNair Scholars at Kent State! We will be sending you an email highlighting something we have done and/or providing you with an interesting fact about the program, our scholars, or our faculty mentors.
The picture above is from our leadership retreat, which we did at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park last week. Ask a scholar about kayaking, paddle boarding and the Ga-Ga champion!
Did you know? The McNair Scholars Program will be celebrating its 20th year at Kent State in 2018-19. The first grant was funded in 1999.

Deven is completing a meta-analysis of ambush marketing research. A meta-analysis is a type of systematic review of data from several studies in an effort to have more statistical power to draw conclusions about a particular research topic. Ambush marketing is what happens when a company connects their product with an event that already has official sponsors. Deven uses this example: “Ambush marketing would be when Apple pays to sponsor the Super Bowl, but Samsung (who isn’t an official sponsor) runs commercials referencing “the Big Game.”
Did you know? There are only 4 McNair Programs in Ohio: Kent State, University of Cincinnati, Cleveland State, and Bowling Green.

Did you know? McNair Scholars also do research during the academic year. This can be an expansion of their summer project or a new research project.

Did you know? In addition to group graduate school visits, McNair provides some support for Scholars to visit graduate schools to which they have been admitted.


Did you know? Today, we are hosting our sister McNair program from the University of Cincinnati. Our staff assisted in the coordination of a graduate school visit for them, so they will be meeting our scholars, talking with faculty about graduate programs and going on a campus tour.

Did you know? We will begin recruiting the next McNair cohort in September. If you know a student who is interested in going to graduate school, please send them to see one of our staff! Applications will be due mid-October!

Last Thursday, we concluded the Summer Research Institute with our annual SRI Symposium, help in the Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony. All of our scholars presented their research. Attendees included faculty mentors, scholar’s friends and family, McNair alumni, and supporters from various departments around campus. We’d like to send a special shout out to our SSS family (TRIO Works!!) for always showing up to support our scholars; and N.J. and Dean Pringle for sharing some encouraging words during our awards ceremony.
Did you know? Our scholars are already gearing up to do academic year research! Applications will go out today and will be due right after Labor Day. Scholars can choose to expand the project they completed during SRI or work on a new project.