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McNair Scholars Program

Faculty Mentors

Faculty Mentors

Mentoring is a vital component of the Wayne State McNair Program and a good faculty mentor is essential for McNair Scholars.  Faculty mentors provide McNair Scholars advice and guidance on planning their research and academic program, developing research skills and preparing for admission into and successful completion of a doctoral degree.

Below you will find a list of previous McNair Scholar mentors representing various departmental affiliations to support the wide-range of McNair Scholars' research interests.  If you are considering becoming a McNair Scholar, you should not think your mentor need come from this list, but should be encouraged by the number of willing mentors.  If you are a faculty member considering a McNair mentorship, you should note that some of the mentors listed have worked with more than one McNair Scholar over the course of the program's history as testament to the level of satisfaction McNair mentee's provide.

Past Faculty Mentors by Department or College:

Africana Studies
Melba Boyd (Dept. Chair)
Ollie A. Johnson
Xavier S. Livermon
Daphne Ntiri

Anthropology
Guerin Montilus
Andrea Sankar
Frances Trix
Gregory Prang

Art
Tony Crowley

Biochemistry
Iulia Kovari

Biological Sciences
Robert Arking
Daniel C. Barth-Jones
David Lars Njus
Susan Trowbridge

Business
Neveen F. Awad
Anthony Billings

Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies
Jorge Luis Chinea

Chemical Engineering
Sandro R.P. da Rocha

Chemistry
Robert Akins
John SantaLucia

College of Education
Mary K. Clark
Maria M. Ferreira
Ingrid Guerra-Lopez
Annadelle Kidwell
Karen Lee
Michael Peterson

College of Nursing
Ramona Benkert
Jane Helinski
Rosalind Peters

Cytotechnology
Carmen Gamlin

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Abhilash Pandya

English
Walter Edwards
Ken Jackson
Margaret I. Jordan
Frances Ranney

Fine & Performing Arts
Raymond Robinson

Geology
Lawrence D. Lemke

Geography & Urban Planning
Kameshwari Pothukuchi

History 
Danielle McGuire

Interior Design
Dennis Robare

Mathematics
Daniel Frohardt (Dept. Chair)

Peace & Conflict Studies
Frederic Pearson

Philosophy
John Corvino

Physics
William Rolnick

Physical Therapy
Susan Christie

Political Science
Ronald Brown
Sharon F. Lean
Jodi Nachtwey

Psychology
Annmarie Cano
Rita Casey
Rodney Clark
Cary M. Lichtman
Mark Lumley
Shelly Seguin
Ann Stacks
Susan M. Stine

School of Social Work
Debra M. Hernandez Jozefowicz-Simbeni
David Moxley
Kamilah Omari
Durrenda Onolemhemhen
Arlene Weisz

Sociology
Heather Dillaway
Janet Hankin (Dept. Chair)