{"id":38243,"date":"2025-05-01T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=38243"},"modified":"2025-05-01T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:21:34","slug":"mcnair-scholar-chris-abruscato-accepted-to-washington-state-universitys-summer-research-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mcnair-scholar-chris-abruscato-accepted-to-washington-state-universitys-summer-research-program\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair Scholar Chris Abruscato Accepted to Washington State University&#8217;s Summer Research Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7e20a00a\">\n\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\/04\/Chris-Abruscato_WSU-SRI_SRI_Summer-SRI-Acceptance-2025-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/04\/Chris-Abruscato_WSU-SRI_SRI_Summer-SRI-Acceptance-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/04\/Chris-Abruscato_WSU-SRI_SRI_Summer-SRI-Acceptance-2025-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/04\/Chris-Abruscato_WSU-SRI_SRI_Summer-SRI-Acceptance-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/04\/Chris-Abruscato_WSU-SRI_SRI_Summer-SRI-Acceptance-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/04\/Chris-Abruscato_WSU-SRI_SRI_Summer-SRI-Acceptance-2025-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/04\/Chris-Abruscato_WSU-SRI_SRI_Summer-SRI-Acceptance-2025-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/04\/Chris-Abruscato_WSU-SRI_SRI_Summer-SRI-Acceptance-2025-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/04\/Chris-Abruscato_WSU-SRI_SRI_Summer-SRI-Acceptance-2025-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to McNair Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/chris-abruscato\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/chris-abruscato\/\">Chris Abruscato<\/a>! Chris has been accepted to <a href=\"https:\/\/shock.wsu.edu\/research-experience-for-undergraduates-reu-waves-in-physics\/#:~:text=May%2028%20%E2%80%93%20August%201%2C%202025,of%20waves%2C%20including%20shock%20waves.\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shock.wsu.edu\/research-experience-for-undergraduates-reu-waves-in-physics\/#:~:text=May%2028%20%E2%80%93%20August%201%2C%202025,of%20waves%2C%20including%20shock%20waves.\">Washington State University&#8217;s Summer Research Internship<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.wsu.edu\/reu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/physics.wsu.edu\/reu\/\">WSU&#8217;s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)<\/a> is a 10-week experience investigating research centered around waves (ex. shock waves) in the fields of physics and astronomy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Abruscato is currently a physics major at Eastern Washington University (EWU), forecasted to graduate in Spring 2026. He is a member of the Honor\u2019s Society, as well as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Chris is also an active member of EWU\u2019s Physics Club, where various on-campus experiments and guest lectures are organized. He plans to attend graduate school with the goal of earning a PhD in theoretical physics. His research interests are unique quantum phenomena and the philosophical implications of various physical models, including but not limited to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics.<br><\/p>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to McNair Scholar Chris Abruscato! Chris has been accepted to Washington State University&#8217;s Summer Research Internship. WSU&#8217;s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) is a 10-week experience investigating research centered around waves (ex. shock waves) in the fields of physics and astronomy. Chris Abruscato is currently a physics major at Eastern Washington University (EWU), forecasted &#8230; <a title=\"McNair Scholar Chris Abruscato Accepted to Washington State University&#8217;s Summer Research Program\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mcnair-scholar-chris-abruscato-accepted-to-washington-state-universitys-summer-research-program\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about McNair Scholar Chris Abruscato Accepted to Washington State University&#8217;s Summer Research Program\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26138,"featured_media":38256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[808,806,809,28,482],"tags":[134,301,484,807],"class_list":["post-38243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2024-2025-cohort","category-2025-summer-research-internship","category-chris-abruscato","category-news","category-physics","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship","tag-physics","tag-sri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243"}],"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=38243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38335,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243\/revisions\/38335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}