The Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program provides undergraduate students an opportunity to work with a faculty mentor, explore and research in their discipline, while preparing for future graduate school enrollment. The program is name . . .

This paper explores the relationship between the US stock market and the Euro exchange rate for the period before and after the most recent financial crisis (2007). A VAR model is employed to simultaneously estimate the short-run effect of the exchang . . .

The objective of this research was to study the effect of Zn in combination with other micro- and secondary macronutrients applied to almond trees as a foliar with fungicide bloom sprays. The experiment was conducted in a 13-year almond orchard using . . .

A detection and monitoring experiment was conducted at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona using Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lighted yellow sticky traps to capture Diaphorina citri, Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP), from April 16th to May 7th, 20 . . .

Santa Monica Bay contains protected species and critical habitats coupled with a large oil refinery and the last remaining open ocean marine terminal in California. Advances in the understanding of the fate of an oil spill have come by way of computat . . .

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how greetings affect the feeling of interpersonal connection by different social contexts of gender and race. This study utilized a field experiment conducted at California State University, Los Angeles fro . . .

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning (LGBTQ) youth face unique obstacles which have been directly linked to an increase in lifetime suicide attempts. For this reason, this project aims at addressing these obstacles, educating the cam . . .