The Association hosted 10 outstanding students from the 2003 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) at this year's Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. The students presented their research at the American Politics II Poster Session, with topics ranging from capital punishment to political mobilization. Students were accompanied at the meeting by former RBSI student DeAunderia Bryant, who presented her research at the 1999 APSA Annual Meeting and is now a doctoral student at the University of Michigan. The following RBSI students presented their research at this year's meeting:

Gwen Shirl Davis, College of William and Mary “We Are All in It Together: An Examination of the Effects of Blacks' Level of Social Capital on their Sense of a Linked Fate with Other Blacks”

Adrian DeLeón, DePaul University “Political Cohesion: A Reconceptualization of Group Consciousness within the Latino Community”

Joseph A. Delgado, Mercyhurst College “Minority Groups and Capital Punishment: A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Religiosity on Black and Latino Support of the Death Penalty”

John Patrick Hernandez, Bowdoin College “Views on American Military Intervention: African Americans Contra Whites”

Rashida Jeffers, College of Charleston “The Effects of Informal Social Capital on Political Mobilization in African-American Community”

Jessica D. Johnson, Yale University “Housing Discrimination: Perceptions for Blacks and Whites within Urban and Suburban Areas”

Christopher J. Lebron, Baruch College “Racial Preference among Latinos and Its Implications for Political Ideology”

Ivory Rose Parnell, University of California, Riverside “All Power to the People … in the Pews? A Study of Black Baptists and Methodists and Black Nationalism”

Carlton Francis Rand, V, Duke University “Political Participation among Blacks, Latinos, and Whites: Is There Common Ground?”

John Christopher Zepeda, Loyola Marymount University “Setting the Stage for Latino Political Mobilization and Political Participation: Social Capital and Class Considered”

APSA's Ralph Bunche Summer Institute is a five-week program for minority undergraduate students interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in political science. The Institute is hosted by Duke University and is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. For more information or to download an application for next summer's Institute, visit the APSA web site at http://www.apsanet.org/about/minority/rbsi.cfm or email minority@apsanet.org.