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EWU McNair Scholar Lily Ann Long Awarded Dean Jeffers W. Chertok Honored Student Award

05/26/2020 by Jaeger, Corinne Leave a Comment

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EWU McNair Scholar Lily Ann Long receives Dean Jeffers W. Chertok Honored Student Award.

Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Lily Ann Long! Lily Ann has been selected to receive the Dean Jeffers W. Chertok Honored Student Award for the College of Social Sciences, Psychology. This award is presented to exceptional students who have shown a commitment to their education by demonstrating outstanding academic achievement with a minimum of a 3.75 GPA in their previous four quarters and through leadership and service to the community. Lily Ann has interned at First Call for Help Spokane as a crisis advocate where she answered crisis calls as well as organizing and implementing training for new volunteers. From December 2019 through June 2020 Lily Ann has continued her crisis advocacy through Crisis Text Line United States. She has also volunteered as an EWU Student Mentor for Cheney Middle School, a crisis advocate at the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, and a warming shelter volunteer at the Seattle Dinner Church. She holds an Activist in Residence Training Certificate as well as a Certificate in Suicide Prevention.

 

Beyond her exceptional community involvement, Lily Ann is a brilliant, hard working scholar. She is a senior at EWU majoring in Psychology with a minor in Applied Developmental Psychology. Throughout her time at Eastern, Lily Ann has received the Len Stern Endowed Research Award, a College Bound Scholarship, and an EWU McNair Summer Research Internship. She has been on the EWU Dean's List from Fall 2015 through graduation, and the Excellent Student Leader Award from the Department of Political Science and International Affairs. She is also a member of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology.

 

Lily Ann has done extensive research while at Eastern. Her research interests include marginalization, stigmatization, attachment disorders, and suicide prevention. She is a research assistant in both Dr. Martin's Social Psychology Lab and Dr. Kolts' Clinical Pscyhology Research Lab. As a part of Dr. Theresa Martin's Psychology 313 Research Methods course, Lily Ann designed and completed a quantitative study of the impact of the EWU Psychology curriculum on students' stigmatization of mental health disorders. Through independent study with Dr. Kolts she is exploring the co-occurrence of complex trauma and childhood gender dysphoria and how it relates to adult gender identity. In addition, she collected, synthesized, and presented research on prospective donors for EWU Advancement Services.

 

As a McNair Scholar, Lily Ann has committed to attaining a Ph.D. Beyond all of her above research, to further prepare for her Ph.D., she completed an EWU McNair Summer Research Internship under the mentorship of Dr. Aryn Zeihnert where she began a research project on shame as a function of academic distress in populations of first-generation, low-income, and minority students. She also worked as a Teaching Assistant for Dr. Zeihnert from the spring of 2019 through Winter 2020. Finaaly, Lily Ann presented the research she worked on with Dr. Martin, "Ghosting as a Dissolution Tactic in Romantic Relationships," at the EWU Symposium in 2019. To read more about Lily Ann and her research check out her webpage on the McNair site.

 

Lily Ann has been accepted into Point Park University's PsyD Program and plans to attend in the fall of 2020. EWU McNair is so proud of Lily Ann and all of her hard work. We know she will have a continued powerful impact on the field of psychology and beyond!

Filed Under: 2018-2019 Cohort, Acceptances/Awards, Lily Ann Long, McNair Mentors, Mentor, News, Psychology, Research, Scholars Tagged With: Award, Dr. Aryn Zeihnert, Dr. Russell Kolts, Dr. Theresa Martin, EWU College of Social Sciences, EWU McNair Program, EWU McNair Scholar, Point Park University, Psychology

EWU College of Social Sciences Honors Six EWU McNair Scholars

05/20/2020 by Jaeger, Corinne Leave a Comment

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Six fantastic EWU McNair Scholars receive highest awards from the College of Social Sciences at EWU.

This spring, the Eastern Washington University College of Social Sciences has selected six EWU McNair Scholars for some of their highest awards. The Frances B. Huston Medallion Award is presented to only 20 graduating students each year who have a strong academic record and have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and in the community. EWU McNair Scholars Angélica García-Macías (Political Science), Miriam Carlson (Psychology), and Marixza Torres (Psychology) all received this award. The Dean Jeffers W. Chertok Honored Student Award for the College of Social Sciences is presented to exceptional students who have shown a commitment to their education by demonstrating outstanding academic achievement with a minimum of a 3.75 GPA in their previous four quarters and through leadership and service to the community. The College of Social Sciences selected EWU McNair Scholars Madelyn Brown (History), Lily Ann Long (Psychology) and Abdulrazik Mohamed (International Affairs) for this award.

Not only do these awards acknowledge the hard work of each of these students, they also exemplify the power of collaboration, mentorship, and student support by EWU faculty and staff. Each year the EWU McNair Program recruits promising scholars and engages them in year round learning on research, writing, and preparation for graduate school. Each EWU McNair Scholar is paired with a faculty mentor who guides them through the research process. EWU McNair Faculty Mentors meet as often as weekly with their mentees throughout spring and summer quarters culminating in a research paper. EWU McNair Scholars then present this research at the EWU Symposium as well as at academic conferences around the nation. For example, Miriam Carlson will present her research, completed under the mentorship of  Dr. Aryn Zeihnert, at the upcoming Western Psychological Association conference in October 2020. Marixza Torres has presented her EWU research, under the mentorship of McNair Director Dr. Christina Torres García, at the Western Psychological Association conference and the National Latinx Psychological Association conference. Marixza has also been mentored year round by Dr. Theresa Martin. Other mentors for this group of scholars include: Dr. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted (Abdu), Dr. Aryn Zeihnert (Lily Ann), Dr. Martín Meráz García (Angélica), and Lecturer SimHayKin S. Jack along with Dr. Christina Torres García (Madelyn), and there are countless other College of Social Sciences faculty and staff that support McNair students at present and in past years. In addition to these formal faculty mentorships, many professors do additional year round support for students, by having them join their research labs, TA, and just everyday care, engagement, and guidance.

 

McNair also provides year round support for students including tutoring, linking students to services and resources, and regular one-on-one meetings for connection, encouragement, and advice. EWU McNair makes sure students have the tool they need to navigate higher education, successfully apply to graduate school and research internships, and negotiate funding and final decisions for which graduate schools they will attend.

 

McNair is a federally funded program that helps low-income first generation colleges students and those else wise underrepresented in higher education to earn PhD's and increase diversity in academia. EWU's McNair program started in 1995 and, to-date, 40 EWU McNair Scholars have gone on to earn their PhD and over 100 more have attained their Masters degree. This year, twelve graduating EWU McNair Scholars have been accepted to Masters and/or PhD programs, many with full funding. Miriam has been accepted Gonzaga University's Education Specialist in School Psychology program. Lily Ann has been accepted into Point Park University's PsyD Program. Angélica has been accepted at 3 PhD programs with full funding and one Masters program. Marixza has been accepted to 2 PhD programs with full funding and one Masters program. Abdu has been accepted by 3 Masters programs and 1 PhD program with full funding. And Madelyn has been accepted by 7 Masters programs, many of which offered full funding. All are planning to attend graduate school in the fall of 2020. This would not be possible without the incredible support of faculty mentors and partnership with the other colleges at EWU. Thank you to all of our incredible faculty and staff and congratulations to our phenomenal scholars!

Filed Under: 2017-2018 Cohort, 2018-2019 Cohort, AbdulrazikMohamed, Acceptances/Awards, American Indian Studies, AngelicaGarciaMacias, Chicano Studies, History, Lily Ann Long, Madelyn Brown, MarixzaTorres, Mentor, Miriam Carlson, Political Science, Psychology, Research, Scholars, Uncategorized Tagged With: Abdulrazik Mohamed, Angelica Garcia-Macias, Dr. Aryn Zeihnert, Dr. Charalambos C. Cleanthous, Dr. Christina Torres García, Dr. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, Dr. Martín Meráz García, Dr. Theresa Martin, EWU College of Social Sciences, Lily Ann Long, Madelyn Brown, Marixza Torres, Miriam Carlson, SimHayKin S. Jack

EWU McNair Scholar Lily Ann Long Accepted to Point Park Psy.D. Program

02/24/2020 by Jaeger, Corinne Leave a Comment

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Photo of Lily Ann Long next to text congratulating her for being accepted into the Clinical Psy.D. program at Point Park University.

Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Lily Ann Long! Lily has been accepted into the Point Park University's PsyD Program. Lily Ann is a senior at Eastern Washington University majoring in Psychology. During her time at EWU, she has worked as a research assistant in Dr. Theresa Martin’s social psychology lab researching patterns within intimate relationships and stigmatization of mental health disorders, as a research assistant in Dr. Kolts’s clinical psychology lab researching problematic anger in a sample of adult men and the co-occurence of complex trauma and childhood gender dysphoria related to adult gender expression, and as a research assistant for Advancement Services helping to research and create case evaluations for prospects. In addition, Lily Ann worked as a summer intern through McNair with mentor Dr. Aryn Zeihnert, researching first-generation students’ experiences of shame as they relate to the academic context. To read more about Lily Ann and her research, check out her page on the EWU McNair website.

 

We are so proud of Lily Ann and excited for her next steps towards attaining her PsyD!

Filed Under: 2018-2019 Cohort, Acceptances/Awards, Lily Ann Long, McNair Mentors, Mentor, Psychology, Research, Scholars Tagged With: Acceptances, Accepted, Dr. Aryn Zeihnert, EWU McNair Program, EWU McNair Scholar, Graduate School, Mentors, Psychology

McNair Scholar, Lily Ann Long, Awarded the Len Stern Endowed Research Award

07/01/2019 by jlittleton1 Leave a Comment

We are extremely pleased to announce that Lily Ann Long, Psychology Major and McNair Scholar (2018), has been awarded the Len Stern Endowed Research Award for her research in shame as a function of academic distress in a population of first-generation, low-income minority students.

The Leonard D. Stern Research Award Endowment was established by Dr. Jeffrey Joireman, a student of Dr. Stern’s, to honor the longstanding contribution and mentoring Dr. Stern offered students at EWU and to support and promote high quality undergraduate research that could ultimately lead the recipient to graduate school. This research will be completed during the 2019-2020 academic year with the mentorship of Dr. Ziehnert and Dr. Kolts, and will be funding her travel to the WPA conference in Spring 2020 where she will be lecturing on the findings of her research.

Congratulations, Lily Ann!

Filed Under: 2018-2019 Cohort, Lily Ann Long, Psychology

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