EWU McNair Alumna Dr. Laura Zamudio-Orozco Joins EWU McNair Program

The EWU McNair Program welcomes Dr. Laura Zamudio-Orozco as our interim Academic Advisor! Dr. Zamudio-Orozco is an alumna of EWU’s McNair Scholar Program. She graduated from Eastern Washington University in 2014 with a BA in Mathematics Education (K-8). She worked as an educator at Adams Elementary in Spokane to get some on the ground experience … Read more

EWU McNair Alumni Dr. Erin McLaughlin teaches at University of Notre Dame

EWU McNair Scholar Alumni Dr. Erin McLaughlin teaches at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Erin McLaughlin, an EWU McNair Scholar from the 2003-2004 cohort, currently works as an Associate Teaching Professor for the University Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame. She attained her BA here at EWU and her Masters and PhD … 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

EWU Alum and McNair Scholar, Dr. Alvina Cawston Marris, awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to support improving health equity in rural areas

Dr. Alvina Cawston Marris (EWU McNair Scholar 2003) was awarded a grant in 2018 and named an Interdisciplinary Research Leader dedicated to improving health equity in rural areas. As a practicing psychologist, Dr. Marris works to improve health equity in rural areas. She works with the Colville Tribes and is currently conducting research to develop … Read more

Dr. Ia Xiong (Psychology), 2019 Bush Fellow and EWU McNair Scholars’ Program alum, shares her story.

“My parents are Hmong refugees, and I am the first person in my family to be born in the United States…As the first generation to grow up in the U.S., I saw firsthand the struggles of my community adjusting to such jarring circumstances. I felt a strong sense of need to be able to bring … Read more

Michelle Abunaja, EWU McNair Scholar (class of 2018), awarded American Public Transportation Foundation Richard J Bouchard AECOM Scholarship

Congratulations to Michelle Abunaja, EWU McNair Scholars’ Program alum, for receiving the prestigious American Public Transportation Foundation Richard J Bouchard AECOM Scholarship at the APTA conference in NYC! Michelle is pursuing her master’s degree University of Washington in the department of Urban Design and Planning. She was nominated for the award by Susan Meyer, the … Read more