Title: Pathways to success /
Authors: Sloan, L. R. 1946-; Starr, B. James, 1941-
Publisher: Howard University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Psychology; Minority Groups education; Fellowships and Scholarships; Biological Science Disciplines; Mental Health; Mental health; Life sciences; Psychology; Minority college students Scholarships, fellowships, etc. United States.; United States; United States
Abstract: Minorities long have been underrepresented in the fields of science and engineering; in recent years, for example, only about 6 percent of all doctorates conferred in those fields were awarded to minority candidates. The Career Opportunities in Research Education and Training (COR) Program - formerly known as the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program - was established by the National Institute of Mental Health to encourage minority students to choose science careers and, particularly, careers in the fields of mental health and mental illness. The COR Program provides funds to colleges and universities with high proportions of minority students in order to train future scientists by pairing undergraduates with working scientists, researchers, and educators in the students' areas of interest. The undergraduate-and-mentor pairs then conduct real-world research and document the results in the form of scientific papers. Pathways to Success is a compilation of papers from twenty-two such research studies conducted in NIMH-COR programs located around the United States.
Contents: Design-copying skills in brain-injured African Americans / Alfonso Campbell [and others] -- Implicit memory performance is normal in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases / Lisa Barnes and Susan Corkin -- Word frequency versus familiarity on the naming performance of Alzheimer's patients / Lisa Barnes and Felicia Goldstein -- Lexical and semantic processing in dyslexic and normal adults / Mark Takayesu and Joellen Hartley -- Background size and one-versus-two performance in relation to the Weber fraction, anchors, and gestalts / Donald L. King and Laura P. Kohn -- The effects of set size and auditory confusability on recency and suffix effects / Iliana I. Robinson and Susan Karp Manning -- The effects of varied levels of tyrosine on MPTP-induced Parkinson's disease / Debra McLaughlin, Henry Milam, and Cyril L. Moore.