EWU McNair Spring Celebration 2021

Mori Williams is a student at Eastern Washington University earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science with an emphasis in Chemistry and a minor in Japanese. He has worked in an Organic Chemistry lab at his university, which involves saponification, NMR readings, and reflux methods. For his 2020 EWU McNair Research Internship, he […]

Hope Sands graduated in 2021 with a major in Anthropology with a focus in Archaeology and Artifact Conservation, as well as a major in Philosophy. As an Honors student and a member of Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi, honor societies at EWU, Hope was selected to present at the Western Regional Honors Conference […]

Samantha Sanchez-Garcia is an undergraduate student at Eastern Washington University pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with an emphasis in communication, sociology, and industrial/ organizational psychology. She is also working on Eastern’s Inclusion and Diversity certificate and co-president of Psi Chi, an international honor society in psychology. Samantha is a research assistant in Dr. […]

After graduating from Spokane Falls Community College, Zoë Romero Becker transferred to Eastern Washington University as a Literacy Education and Mathematics Education double major. While taking a course in English as a Second Language, she decided to add this as a third major to her academic plan to better serve the students who will enter […]

Rachael Pentico is an undergraduate student within the Biology Department at Eastern Washington University. She also spent time at Spokane Falls Community College where she focused on economics, with an emphasis on environmental policy. Her interests and research focus is on ecology and how invasive species and anthropogenic climate change will affect different ecosystems. She wants […]

Aulane Mpouli is a student-athlete at Eastern Washington University. She is majoring in Chemistry and plans on specializing in Analytical Chemistry. Her research interests include analytics, biological chemistry, and catalysis. Aulane is currently working on a biochemical research project analyzing the successful ways in which the substrate Inosine Triphosphate (ITP) binds to the enzyme Inosine […]

Alexis Lisandro Guizar-Diaz graduated in the spring of 2021 with a degree in Sociology and a minor in Philosophy. His key research interests are political economy, rural & agrarian communities, and Latina/o/x populations. He is a member of the American Sociological Association and a recipient of a 2020 Eastern Washington University Summer Research Internship through […]

Alexandria Belen Coronado graduated from Eastern Washington University in 2021 with a major in Political Science and an emphasis in Pre-Law with a minor in Anthropology. Prior to attending EWU, she graduated from Columbia Basin College with an Associate of Arts degree. She is involved in the Honors Program at EWU as well as the […]

Other research interests include: Pan-American migration crises, the deterioration of US asylumrefugee laws, the implications experienced in Latin Caribbean nations due to US neoliberal trade and economic policies, the US regime of sanctions directed toward non-compliant nation-states and other forms of coercive statecraft, the capturing of human rights movements by the neoliberal humanitarian industry, the […]

Lizeth Bañuelos graduated from Eastern Washington University in 2021 with a majori in Applied Developmental Psychology and two minors, one in Race and Culture Studies, the other in Chicana/o/x Studies. Her research interests surround the psychology of the Latinx community and discovering best practices for serving underserved populations. Lizeth completed an EWU McNair Summer Research Institute […]

Analisea Araya is an undergraduate student at Eastern Washington University. She is interested in various philosophical fields, including social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, philosophy of education, and philosophy for children. As a research scholar, Analisea is interested in the way women’s voices have been left out of the western canon and how that has perpetuated […]

Wendolyn Martinez is a rising senior in the Political Science Department. She is currently a double major in Political Science and International Affairs. In her 2019 EWU McNair Summer Research Internship, under the mentorship of Dr. Dorothy Zielser-Vralsted, Wendolyn studied interwar propaganda within the US and USSR relating to public works projects. Then in the […]

Theresa Lee is majoring in criminal justice and psychology with a minor in sociology at Eastern Washington University. She is interested in studying reentry challenges faced by convicted offenders (see more on her research below). She presented a poster of her research at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) conference with the support of her […]

Darlene Gilroy graduated from Eastern Washington University in summer 2021 with a bachelor of science degree in  Geology. At EWU, she worked on an independent research project investigating the chemical weathering of volcanic sediments (see research below), presenting this project at the 2019 Murdock College Science Research Conference in Tacoma WA, the 2020 WE-STEM conference […]

Malachi Chukwu is an International Affairs and Political Science major at Eastern Washington University with an emphasis on global security processes and a minor in Political Science. Prior to becoming a student at EWU, he graduated with an Associate of Art degree at Spokane Community College in the Spring of 2018. His research interests focus […]