{"id":8701,"date":"2022-07-08T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=8701"},"modified":"2022-07-08T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:02:38","slug":"tommyboiz-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/tommyboiz-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"tommyboiZ (Thomas Cyphers) Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8702\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-C-tommyboiZ.jpg\" alt=\"tommyboiZ Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-C-tommyboiZ.jpg 750w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-C-tommyboiZ-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-C-tommyboiZ-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/thomas-cyphers\/\">tommyboiZ<\/a>! tommyboiZ was selected by the McNair Scholars&#8217; selection committee on the basis of their passion for research, commitment to attaining a PhD, and overall potential for success in graduate school.<\/p>\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<p>tommyboiZ is a third-year transfer student at Eastern Washington University, double majoring in Philosophy and Gender, Women&#8217;s, and Sexuality Studies. They transferred from Spokane Community College after completing their AA-DTA for Business. tommy has a plethora of scholarly interests which culminate in a unique holistic approach emphasizing unity through understanding difference. With a focus towards community knowledge production at the local level, tommy\u2019s primary research goal is to re-articulate the stories of these communities in a way that recognizes difference while simultaneously allowing for incorporation of these differences into the heterogeneous whole. For their 2022 Summer Research Internship they will be mentored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/experts\/christopher-c-kirby\/\">Dr. Christopher Kirby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to accompanying tommyboiZ as their research unfolds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar tommyboiZ! tommyboiZ was selected by the McNair Scholars&#8217; selection committee on the basis of their 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=\"tommyboiZ (Thomas Cyphers) Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/tommyboiz-2021\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about tommyboiZ (Thomas Cyphers) Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":8702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,572,9,518,26,28,29,127,34,513,514],"tags":[502,431,154,134,301,519,260,520],"class_list":["post-8701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-2022-cohort","category-2022-summer-research","category-acceptances-awards","category-gender-womens-and-sexuality-studies","category-mcnair-mentors","category-news","category-philosophy","category-research","category-scholars","category-thomas-cyphers","category-tommyboiz","tag-dr-christopher-kirby","tag-ewu-mcnair-faculty-mentor","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship","tag-gender-womens-and-sexuality-studies","tag-philosophy","tag-recognizing-difference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701"}],"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=8701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8703,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701\/revisions\/8703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}