The McNair Voice

The Georgia State University McNair program took five of its most promising scholars to the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) that was held in Orlando Florida from November 5^th-9^th. This talented group of scholars included Blein McIntyre, Isha Metzger, Amber Wimsatt, Gina Vanagas, Salamatu Barrie.  There were over 3,000 scholars that presented their research at this conference. Isha Metzger won an award for Best Poster for Social and Behavioral Science at the conference.  This is nothing new for Isha because she won the first place prize for her poster at the end of the research program at Georgia State University.

The McNair Program wants to commend these scholars for their hard work and dedication to the program and its goals. Kudos to the future Dr. Metzger!!!

The Ronald E. McNair Program at Georgia State is trying to expand its recruiting efforts in hopes of attracting more perspective scholars. The McNair Program is coming up with new and innovative ways to reach the students around campus. For example, the McNair Program is in the process of filming its own three minute commercial. It is the program hopes that the commercial will do a good job of capturing the essence of the program by showing the McNair Program and scholars in action. The recruiting efforts are not only lead by the McNair Staff but the scholars are playing an integral role in the recruiting campaigns. Cedrick Dortch, one of the McNair Program brightest scholars has had an active role in the recruiting. On October 24^th he single handedly recruiting around five scholars at the Psychology Department Practicum Fair some of which have already came to the McNair office and made inquires. We would like to commend Cedrick for his hard work and diligence. It is the hope of the program that other scholars follow in his footsteps.