EWU McNair Scholar Malachi Chukwu Accepted to Summer Research Opportunity at Emory University

Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Malachi Chukwu! Malachi has been accepted into the Laney Graduate School Summer Opportunity for Academic Research (LGS-SOAR) Program within the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program at Emory University. The award includes a stipend, housing at Emory, and supplementary funds for travel. LGS-SOAR is an intensive 10-week PhD-prep summer program. … Read more

EWU McNair Scholar Abdulrazik Mohamed Accepted to Masters Program at American University

Abdulrazik Mohamed Accepted to Masters Program at American University

Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Abdulrazik Mohamed! Abdu has been accepted into the Masters in Global Governance, Politics, and Security at American University. Abdu is a senior at Eastern Washington University majoring in International Affairs. To prepare for graduate school Abdu completed two summers of research internships through the EWU McNair Program with mentor Dr. … Read more

EWU McNair Alumni Dr. Martín Meráz García and Dr. Bruno M. Baltodano in collaboration with Dr. Martha L. Cottam published The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War

We congratulate two of our EWU McNair Alum for their academic success. This book is a qualitative study based on 85 interviews with female ex-combatants in the revolution and counter-revolution from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s, as well as field observations in Nicaragua and the autonomous regions of the Atlantic Coast. It … Read more

Catching up with EWU McNair Scholar (2018-19) and Gilman Scholarship recipient, Malachi Chukwu in Thailand

Photo credit: Malachi Chukwu (2019) Currently studying abroad in Thailand at Chiang Mai University in the Political and International Affairs Department, EWU McNair Scholar, Malachi Chukwu took some time out of his schedule to check in with us. Malachi is an International Affairs and Political Science major interested in understanding economic development and resource availability. … Read more

EWU McNair Scholar, Abdulrazik Mohamed, presents research on Sudanese Diaspora in Newark, NJ and Washington, D.C.

Story by Cynthia Dukich EWU McNair Scholar Abdulrazik “Abdu” Mohamed (2018 cohort) recently returned from a TRIO McNair-sponsored research trip where he presented his research “Sudanese in Diaspora: Perceptions on the conflict in Darfur” at the 2019 Black Doctoral Network Conference in Newark, New Jersey, then traveled to Georgetown Law School and Capitol Hill to … Read more