{"id":6079,"date":"2021-03-02T16:31:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2024-12-03T06:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:55:03","slug":"ewu-mcnair-scholar-rachael-pentico-accepted-to-suny-phd-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-rachael-pentico-accepted-to-suny-phd-program\/","title":{"rendered":"EWU McNair Scholar Rachael Pentico Accepted to SUNY PhD Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2021\/03\/Rachael-Pentico-Graduate-School-Acceptances-2021-SY.png\" alt=\"Rachael Pentico Graduate School Acceptances 2021 SY\" title=\"Rachael Pentico Graduate School Acceptances 2021 SY\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Rachael Pentico! Rachael has been accepted by Syracuse University&#8217;s (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry for a PhD in Ecosystems: Land, Water, and Air. Rachael has also been accepted by the University of Idaho in their Masters of Natural Resources Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Rachael is majoring in Biology at Eastern Washington University. Her interests and research focus on ecology and how invasive species and anthropogenic climate change will affect different ecosystems. She is a research assistant in Dr. Rebecca Brown&#8217;s lab where they are focused on restoring a section of the Palouse Prairie. For her 2020 EWU McNair Summer Research Internship, with the continued mentorship of Dr. Rebecca Brown, Rachael completed her study <em>Differences in Plant Soil Feedbacks with Respect to Slope Aspect <\/em>and has presented her research at the EWU Symposium, the Baylor McNair Research Conference, and the Murdock College Science Research Conference. Rachael plans to attain her PhD and become a professor where she can mentor students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0The EWU McNair staff are so excited for Rachael and we know she&#8217;ll do amazing things at whichever program she decides to attend!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/cohorts\/2019-2020-cohort\/rachael-pentico\/\">Click here to read more about Rachael or her research.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Rachael Pentico! Rachael has been accepted by Syracuse University&#8217;s (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry for a PhD in Ecosystems: Land, Water, and Air. Rachael has also been accepted by the University of Idaho in their Masters of Natural Resources Program. \u00a0Rachael is majoring in Biology at Eastern Washington &#8230; <a title=\"EWU McNair Scholar Rachael Pentico Accepted to SUNY PhD Program\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-rachael-pentico-accepted-to-suny-phd-program\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EWU McNair Scholar Rachael Pentico Accepted to SUNY PhD Program\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4431,"featured_media":6103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,336,14,17,226],"tags":[159,147,248,319,154,134,305,325,326],"class_list":["post-6079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-2020-cohort","category-2020-grad-school-acceptances","category-biology","category-environmental-science","category-rachael-pentico","tag-acceptances","tag-biology","tag-dr-rebecca-brown","tag-environmental-studies","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-rachael-pentico","tag-suny","tag-sustainable-resources-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079"}],"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\/4431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37579,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions\/37579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}