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Michelle Abunaja<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Michelle Abunaja<\/strong> graduated in 2018 with a major in Urban and Regional Planning and minors in Spanish and Geography. She is interested in multimodal transportation and the effects of the built environment on community health. As an intern at Varela and Associates Engineering, Michelle wrote the ADA Transition Plan for the City of Othello in the summer of 2017 and composed a Walkability report for the City of Coulee Dam. In addition, Michelle worked with Spokane Regional Health District to implement the Walk, Bike, Bus program in the City of Millwood, Washington. She was a Peer Health Educator for EWU Health, Wellness, and Prevention Services. She also conducted research under the guidance of Associate Professor and Director Dr. K. Brooks on how street trees contribute to air pollution mitigation and its effect on walkability in the U-District of Spokane, Washington. Michele was accepted into multiple master’s programs and began attending the University of Washington’s Transportation and Infrastructural Planning Masters program in the fall of 2018.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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2017 McNair Faculty Research Mentor:<\/strong> Dr. Kerry Brooks<\/a> – Urban and Regional Planning
Research Title: <\/strong>Mobile Sensing Of Air Quality Associated with Street Trees<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michelle Abunaja, EWU McNair Scholar (class of 2018), awarded American Public Transportation Foundation Richard J Bouchard AECOM Scholarship<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Michelle Abunaja has been accepted into the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

Michelle Abunaja has been accepted into the Master of City and Regional Planning program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You have worked hard this year and it is all paying off. Congratulations Michelle! #TRIOWorks<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Michelle has been accepted into Cornell<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

EWU Scholar, Michelle Abunaja, has been accepted into Cornell University! Keep up the hard work Michelle. This is great news!<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Michelle Abunaja has been accepted into University of Colorado Denver<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

Michelle Abunaja has been accepted into University of Colorado Denver! That is so great Michelle!<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Michelle has been accepted into University of Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

Michelle Abunaja has been accepted into UW! So awesome!<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Michelle Abunaja has been accepted into Virginia Tech<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

Michelle Abunaja has been accepted into the Master of Urban and Regional Planning program at Virginia Tech. Such great news! Great work Michelle!<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Michelle completed a McNair research internship from summer of 2017<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

We would like congratulate Michelle Abunaja for her hard work well done. She completed a McNair summer 2017 research internship. Her research title was: “Mobile Sensing Of Air Quality Associated with Street Trees”. Great work to Michelle and her mentor Dr. Kerry Brooks.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Michelle has received scholarships!<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

EWU McNair Scholar, Michelle Abunaja, has received the College of Business and Public Administration Deans Leadership Endowed Scholarship for $3,500 and the Len Zickler Scholarship for $1,000. She also won the Undergraduate Level Professional Achievement Award. That’s amazing Michelle! Congrats!<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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New Scholars 2017<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEW SCHOLARS:Josiah Van Egdom, Monica Villegas, Jaimie Kenney, Arie Gurin, Felix Beltran, Sandra Espinosa, Mario Aguilar, Laurisa Ankley, Ereisa G. Morales-L\u00f3pez, Kimberly Jones, Kim Jones, Christina Ramelow, Travis Stephens, Michelle Abunaja, Loni Taber, Elvin Cabrera, Shawn Stratte. Ewu Trio McNair Scholar<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Abunaja Michelle Abunaja graduated in 2018 with a major in Urban and Regional Planning and minors in Spanish and Geography. She is interested in multimodal transportation and the effects of the built environment on community health. As an intern at Varela and Associates Engineering, Michelle wrote the ADA Transition Plan for the City of Othello … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9086,"featured_media":0,"parent":35563,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35594","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36933,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35594\/revisions\/36933"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}