A few of our scholars alongside their faculty mentors during the 19th Annual McNair Scholars Program Research Internship.
Faculty mentors for the McNair Scholars Program work closely with scholars throughout their time in the program.
They provide guidance, as well as assist scholars with action plans to achieve their goals for graduate school. They meet regularly with scholars during their summer research internship and offer constructive feedback.
Faculty Mentors
School of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emily Barton, PhD
Jessica Boyette-Davis, PhD
Amy Concilio, PhD
Michael Disch, PhD
Katherine Goldey, PhD
Lisa Holleran, PhD
Jooyoun Lee, PhD
Moira Martin, PhD
Adam McCormick, PhD
Gianncarlo Muschi, PhD
Kadie R. Rackley, PhD
Brian Smith, PhD
David Thomason, PhD
Christie Wilson, PhD
School of Arts and Humanities
Teri Lynn Varner, PhD
School of Natural Sciences
Balyssa Bell, PhD
Claire Edwards, PhD
Daniel Gold, PhD
Kristopher Row, PhD
Bilal Shapiro, PhD
The Munday School of Business
Angela Ju, PhD
Kathleen Wilburn, PhD
Munday Library
Brittney Johnson, MAT Ed, MS CogSci
Tarrant County College Northwest, Department of History & Government
Laura Wood, PhD
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Emily Hilz, PhD
Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) Pre-Graduate School Partnership
Pre-Graduate School Partnership with The University of Texas McNair Graduate Association
Among the variety of resources that we offer to our McNair scholars at ÁùºÏ²Ê¿â’s University, one of its most innovative and unique is the Pre-Graduate School Partnership.
This mentorship program pairs McNair Scholars with seasoned UT graduate students, who are also McNair Scholars, in their area of study to learn about unique aspects of graduate study. McNair Scholars and their mentors design the specific details and tasks of the partnership experience. Activities, assignments and tasks are determined through negotiation between scholars and their graduate student mentors, and a partnership contract ensures that there is both structure to and accountability for the experience.
Some examples of activities might include:
- attending graduate classes, seminars and departmental research colloquia,
- observation of graduate student teaching,
- discussions of an academic discipline, graduate study and career development with faculty and graduate students,
- attending meetings of graduate professional organizations, journal groups, lab sessions and other academic gatherings for graduate students and faculty, and
- undertaking a research project.
Pictured: Sarahi Enriquez, St. Ed's McNair Scholar, with her IE mentor Marta Sans, doctoral candidate in Analytical Chemistry