Two Virginia State University seniors and psychology majors, Tashia Brewer and Jamal McCoy, are beginning the 2010 semester as first place winners of the 2009 Historical Black Colleges and Universities-Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) national conference in Washington D.C. They participated in the conference with nearly 800 others students from across the nation.
Brewer gave a poster presentation detailing her research on the social experiences of African-Americans and how it affected their future expectations of race relations. McCoy conducted a presentation of his research that involves creating and using religious typologies to predict health risks behaviors among African-Americans.
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