{"id":38158,"date":"2025-04-16T19:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=38158"},"modified":"2025-04-16T19:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:48:05","slug":"mcnair-scholar-tiago-correia-accepted-to-university-of-new-mexico-ms-in-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mcnair-scholar-tiago-correia-accepted-to-university-of-new-mexico-ms-in-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair Scholar Tiago Correia Accepted to University of New Mexico MS in Mathematics"},"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\/2025\/03\/Tiago-Correia-UNM-MS-in-Mathematics-Acceptance-2025-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Tiago-Correia-UNM-MS-in-Mathematics-Acceptance-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Tiago-Correia-UNM-MS-in-Mathematics-Acceptance-2025-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Tiago-Correia-UNM-MS-in-Mathematics-Acceptance-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Tiago-Correia-UNM-MS-in-Mathematics-Acceptance-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Tiago-Correia-UNM-MS-in-Mathematics-Acceptance-2025-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Tiago-Correia-UNM-MS-in-Mathematics-Acceptance-2025-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Tiago-Correia-UNM-MS-in-Mathematics-Acceptance-2025-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Tiago-Correia-UNM-MS-in-Mathematics-Acceptance-2025-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to McNair Scholar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/tiago-correia\/\">Tiago Correia<\/a>! Tiago has been accepted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.unm.edu\/graduate\/mathematics\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.math.unm.edu\/graduate\/mathematics\">University of New Mexico&#8217;s Master of Science in Mathematics<\/a>. UNM&#8217;s program offers both pure and applied mathematics, with an option to transition into their PhD program after graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiago Correia<\/strong>&nbsp;is a first-generation, low-income student working towards a Bachelor of Science in mathematics at Eastern Washington University. His research interests are in group theory and topology. He plans to one day attend a PhD program in mathematics. After that, he aims to do postdoctoral research and become a professor at an R1 institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of 2023, Tiago attended a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Central Washington University&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwu.edu\/reu\/CCREU\">(CC-REU)<\/a>. While there, he worked with the mathematical biology group under the guidance of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Dssl2b8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\"><strong>Dr. Brandy Wiegers<\/strong><\/a><strong>.&nbsp;<\/strong>He and his group presented their research at the end of the summer, entitled \u201c<em>An Androgen-Dependent Mathematical Model of the Menstrual Cycle\u201d<\/em>. Later that year, he presented his research at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mcnair-scholar-tiago-correia-and-claudio-escalante-attend-2023-sacnas-the-national-diversity-in-stem-conference\/\">2023 SACNAS<\/a>&nbsp;conference in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to McNair Scholar\u00a0Tiago Correia! Tiago has been accepted to University of New Mexico&#8217;s Master of Science in Mathematics. UNM&#8217;s program offers both pure and applied mathematics, with an option to transition into their PhD program after graduation. Tiago Correia&nbsp;is a first-generation, low-income student working towards a Bachelor of Science in mathematics at Eastern Washington &#8230; <a title=\"McNair Scholar Tiago Correia Accepted to University of New Mexico MS in Mathematics\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mcnair-scholar-tiago-correia-accepted-to-university-of-new-mexico-ms-in-mathematics\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about McNair Scholar Tiago Correia Accepted to University of New Mexico MS in Mathematics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26138,"featured_media":38159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[594,805,9,24,28,620,1],"tags":[159,83,134,115],"class_list":["post-38158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2022-2023-cohort","category-2024-2025-grad-school-accceptances","category-acceptances-awards","category-mathematics","category-news","category-tiago-correia","category-uncategorized","tag-acceptances","tag-accepted","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158"}],"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=38158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38161,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158\/revisions\/38161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}