{"id":8704,"date":"2022-07-05T14:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:05:03","slug":"alexander-dodson-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/alexander-dodson-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Dodson Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8705\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Dodson-Alexander.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Dodson Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Dodson-Alexander.jpg 750w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Dodson-Alexander-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Dodson-Alexander-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/alexander-dodson\/\">Alexander Dodson<\/a>! Alexander was selected by the McNair Scholars&#8217; selection committee on the basis of his 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>Alexander Dodson is majoring in Psychology at Eastern Washington University. He is the Treasurer and President-Elect of EWU&#8217;s chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology. Alexander has been a Dean&#8217;s List student for every quarter he has attended Eastern Washington University. He is a research assistant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/experts\/philip-watkins\/\">Dr. Phil Watkins<\/a> study on gratitude. For his 2022 McNair Research Internship, Alexander will be studying impression formation and trait attribution in a social media context with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/psychology\/contact-us\/\">Dr. Amani El-Alayli<\/a> as his mentor. He is particularly interested in social psychology. After graduation Alexander is planning to pursue his PhD with the goal of continuing research and ultimately a career as a professor of Psychology.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to accompanying Alexander as his research unfolds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar Alexander Dodson! Alexander was selected by the McNair Scholars&#8217; selection committee on the basis of his 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Alexander Dodson Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/alexander-dodson-2021\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alexander Dodson Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":8705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,572,9,492,26,28,31,127,34],"tags":[521,522,431,154,134,301,524,525,523,160,526],"class_list":["post-8704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-2022-cohort","category-2022-summer-research","category-acceptances-awards","category-alexander-dodson","category-mcnair-mentors","category-news","category-psychology","category-research","category-scholars","tag-dr-amani-el-alayli","tag-dr-phil-watkins","tag-ewu-mcnair-faculty-mentor","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship","tag-gratitude","tag-impression-formation","tag-psi-chi","tag-psychology","tag-social-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704"}],"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=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions\/8706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}