{"id":8578,"date":"2022-06-01T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2023-01-24T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T20:31:53","slug":"ewu-mcnair-scholar-lucia-roussa-accepted-to-nc-state-phd-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-lucia-roussa-accepted-to-nc-state-phd-program\/","title":{"rendered":"EWU McNair Scholar Lucia Roussa Accepted to NC State PhD Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8579 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/Lucia-Roussa_NC-State.jpg\" alt=\"Lucia Roussa Accepted to the Doctoral program in Marine, Earth &amp; Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/Lucia-Roussa_NC-State.jpg 750w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/Lucia-Roussa_NC-State-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/Lucia-Roussa_NC-State-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/cohorts\/2020-2021-cohort\/lucia-roussa\/\">Lucia Roussa<\/a>! Lucia accepted an offer with a competitive support package from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsu.edu\/\">North Carolina State University&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/meas.sciences.ncsu.edu\/graduate\/programs\/\">Doctoral program in Marine, Earth &amp; Atmospheric Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lucia is double majoring in Environmental Science and Biology at EWU. Her research interests include Phycology, marine microbiology, and conservation science in coastal marine ecosystems. In 2021, <span class=\"mark1ocb535vp\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Lucia<\/span>\u00a0participated in an EWU McNair Summer Research Internship under the mentorship of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/biology\/faculty-staff\/\">Dr. Camille McNeely<\/a>, Professor of Biology, where she investigated the relationship between freshwater algal abundance and diversity by analyzing the eutrophication of wetlands in Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. She then went on to work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/biology\/faculty-staff\/\">Dr. Jessica Allen<\/a> to analyze the phylogeny of freshwater sponges across greater Eastern Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Lucia was one of only 13 interns selected for an <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-lucia-roussa-completes-summer-research-internship\/\">internship\u00a0quantifying Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia labiata) using aerial photographs<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cicoes.uw.edu\/education\/internships\/\">CICOES<\/a>\u00a0(Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies) through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean.washington.edu\/\">University of Washington<\/a>\u00a0under mentor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/jkeister\/\">Dr. Julie Keister<\/a>. Lucia was invited to continue participating in this research.<\/p>\n<p>The EWU McNair staff are excited for Lucia and we know she will contribute high quality, impactful research in her graduate program. <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/cohorts\/2020-2021-cohort\/lucia-roussa\/\">Click here to read more about Lucia and her research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Lucia Roussa! Lucia accepted an offer with a competitive support package from North Carolina State University&#8217;s Doctoral program in Marine, Earth &amp; Atmospheric Sciences. Lucia is double majoring in Environmental Science and Biology at EWU. Her research interests include Phycology, marine microbiology, and conservation science in coastal marine ecosystems. In &#8230; <a title=\"EWU McNair Scholar Lucia Roussa Accepted to NC State PhD Program\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-lucia-roussa-accepted-to-nc-state-phd-program\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EWU McNair Scholar Lucia Roussa Accepted to NC State PhD Program\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":8579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,457,448,9,14,314,17,366,26,28,127,34],"tags":[159,147,367,277,477,329,154,134,450,478],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-2021-cohort","category-2021-summer-research","category-2021-22-grad-school-acceptances","category-acceptances-awards","category-biology","category-dr-camille-mcneely","category-environmental-science","category-lucia-roussa","category-mcnair-mentors","category-news","category-research","category-scholars","tag-acceptances","tag-biology","tag-cicoes","tag-dr-camille-mcneely","tag-dr-jessica-allen","tag-environmental-science","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-marine-conservation","tag-north-carolina-state-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578"}],"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\/30010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8583,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/8583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}