EWU McNair Scholar Rachel Silverthorn Accepted by Two Masters Programs!

Rachel Silverthorn Grad School Acceptances Announcements 2019

Rachel Silverthorn Grad School Acceptances Announcement 2019 Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Rachel Silverthorn! Rachel has been accepted into the Masters program in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University as well as to the Masters in Forensic Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Rachel is a senior at Eastern Washington University … Read more

EWU McNair Scholar Marixza Torres Accepted into PhD and Masters Programs

Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Marixza Torres! Marixza has been accepted into the PhD program in Human Development and Family Services at the University of Missouri as well as to the Masters of Social Work program at the University of Texas, Austin. Marixza is a senior at Eastern Washington University majoring in Applied Psychology with … Read more

McNair Scholars Publish Article with Mentor in the Journal of Applied Microbiology

Congratulations to current EWU McNair Scholar Marcos Monteiro, former EWU McNair Scholar Laurisa Ankley and McNair Faculty Mentor Dr. Andrea Castillo, along with fellow student Katherine Camp and Dr. Robin O’Quinn, for the publication of their article “Manuka honey chelates iron and impacts iron regulation in key bacterial pathogens” in the Journal of Applied Microbiology! … Read more

EWU McNair Scholar Theresa Lee Presents Poster at the American Society of Criminology Conference

EWU McNair Scholar Theresa Lee presented her research poster, “Prisoner Reentry: College Perceptions of Reentry Barriers in a Northwest Community” this November at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) conference. With the support of her mentor, Dr. Lindsey Upton, Theresa studied the college community’s perception of barriers to reentry that might interrupt, or help, successful … 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