EWU McNair Scholar Wendolyn Martinez Accepted to Summer Institute at the University of Michigan!

Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Wendolyn Martinez! Wendolyn has been accepted into the Junior Summer Institute in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) at the University of Michigan. This summer institute is an intensive seven-week summer program that focuses on preparing undergraduate students from all over the United States for graduate programs in public policy … Read more

EWU McNair Scholar Angelica Garcia-Macias Accepted into Multiple PhD Programs

Photo of Angelica Garcia-Macias next to text congratulating her for acceptance into 3 PhD programs. Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Angelica Garcia-Macias! Angelica has been accepted into the Political Science PhD program at Michigan State University, the Political Science PhD program at the University of Washington, and the Political Science PhD program at the University … 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

Chiang Mai University (CMU) Welcome Hike from the CMU campus to the summit of Doi Suthep. Malachi Chukwu pictured first row, first from left. 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 … 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

Traveling the world with Gilman

  EWU McNair Scholars are traveling the world with Gilman Congratulations to Wendolyn Martinez and Malichi Chukwu, two EWU McNair Scholars and Political Science majors, for receiving the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Our Eagles were selected among the nearly 3000 Gilman core awards … Read more