McNair Scholars at Henderson State University

05/05/2023

05/06/2022

Kaylie Wheeless – University of Miami, Ohio, Kaylie will be pursuing a Master's in Microbiology and then petition to enter the Ph.D. program next year.

05/06/2022

Bethany Paxton – Will be attending UAMS this fall to pursue her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology.

05/06/2022

Lara Kockaya – University of Illinois, Lara will be pursuing her Ph.D. in BioChemistry.

05/06/2022

Kati Hall – University of Mississippi, Kati obtained her Master's in Sociology last spring and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Mississippi State University.

05/06/2022

Matthew Chapa – University of West Virginia, where Matthew is in the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program. Matthew will be defending his proposal this summer. Matthew is working on a clinical trial in phase two and is the third author of an article in review.

Rachel King – University of West Virginia, where Rachel is in the Biomedical Science Ph.D. program in the Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine Department. Within the next year, Rachel should be a co-author on two papers.

05/06/2022

Emren Akdamar – Washington State University, has obtained his Masters of Art in Trombone Performance (2022). He has been accepted and will be attending the University of Kansas to pursue a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Trombone Performance.

05/06/2022

Congratulations to our new scholars.
Nathaniel Bright, Stephen Darden, Robert Dunham, Kayla Fite, Corin Hall, Mariya Sasser, and Clover Wagner.

05/06/2022

Congratulations to our graduating scholars. Elijah Garrett, Lara Kockaya, Joseph Schuster, Sarah Vue, Christina Murphy, and Ty Tolbert. Good luck with your future endeavors.

10/14/2021

10/13/2021

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Congratulations! Very proud of these students in which two are McNair Scholars, Kaylie Wheeless, and Maya Robles

Mike Taylor, chair of Henderson’s department of Communications and Theater Arts, has explored caves in the southern United States for around 35 years. After hearing about an interesting pond in an underground cave in Tennessee, he brought nine samples back to Henderson for examination. In 2017, Dr...

10/03/2021

Great opportunity for one of our scholars. Good job Lara!

This past summer, Lara Kockaya, senior Biochemistry major, had the opportunity to research in Dr. Robert Doerksen's lab at the University of Mississippi under the mentorship of Dr. Doerksen and Dr. Pankaj Pandey. The Doerksen lab is a computational medicinal chemistry lab, and they work on a variety of topics, such as cannabinoid receptors and analyzing potential drug leads. The research she collaborated on fell under the topic of examining a new potential drug for cancer treatment. Lara investigated four theoretical regioisomers of Daphnegiratriprenylone A, and the goal was to determine which of these were present from an isolated sample.