{"id":10795,"date":"2024-06-13T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=10795"},"modified":"2024-11-25T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T01:14:19","slug":"kayla-dickson-selected-as-an-ewu-mcnair-scholar-and-awarded-summer-research-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/kayla-dickson-selected-as-an-ewu-mcnair-scholar-and-awarded-summer-research-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla Dickson Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2024\/06\/Kayla-Dickson-Mcnair-Summer-Research-Internship-Award-Summer-2024-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"congrats to Kayla Dickson\" class=\"wp-image-11041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2024\/06\/Kayla-Dickson-Mcnair-Summer-Research-Internship-Award-Summer-2024-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2024\/06\/Kayla-Dickson-Mcnair-Summer-Research-Internship-Award-Summer-2024-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2024\/06\/Kayla-Dickson-Mcnair-Summer-Research-Internship-Award-Summer-2024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2024\/06\/Kayla-Dickson-Mcnair-Summer-Research-Internship-Award-Summer-2024-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2024\/06\/Kayla-Dickson-Mcnair-Summer-Research-Internship-Award-Summer-2024-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2024\/06\/Kayla-Dickson-Mcnair-Summer-Research-Internship-Award-Summer-2024-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar<b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/kayla-dickson\/\">Kayla Dickson<\/a><\/b>!\u00a0Kayla was selected by the McNair Scholars&#8217; selection committee on the basis of her passion for research, commitment to attaining a PhD, and overall potential for success in graduate school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federally-funded TRIO Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program at EWU selects motivated and talented juniors and seniors who are first-generation and low-income college students, and\/or from groups underrepresented at the doctoral level to introduce them to academic research and provide them with effective strategies for getting into and graduating from PhD programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kayla applied to and was accepted by WSU&#8217;s Summer Research Undergraduate Program in the Hemp Program, which partners with the Global Hemp Innovation Center at Oregon State University, University of California &#8211; Davis, and the University of Nevada &#8211; Reno. She will be mentored by Dr. David R. Gang, Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/cannabis\/\">WSU&#8217;s Center for Cannabis Policy, Research and Outreach<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to accompanying Kayla as her research unfolds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar, Kayla Dickson!\u00a0Kayla was selected by the McNair Scholars&#8217; selection committee on the basis of her passion for research, commitment to attaining a PhD, and overall potential for success in graduate school. The federally-funded TRIO Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program at EWU selects motivated and talented juniors and seniors who &#8230; <a title=\"Kayla Dickson Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/kayla-dickson-selected-as-an-ewu-mcnair-scholar-and-awarded-summer-research-internship\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kayla Dickson Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26138,"featured_media":11041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[732,763,14,742,28],"tags":[159,147,154,134,301],"class_list":["post-10795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-2024-cohort","category-2024-mcnair-summer-research-internship","category-biology","category-kayla-dickson","category-news","tag-acceptances","tag-biology","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37326,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795\/revisions\/37326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}