{"id":8729,"date":"2022-06-28T09:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2022-06-28T09:57:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:57:39","slug":"devin-mumey-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/devin-mumey-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Mumey Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8731\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Mumey-Devin.jpg\" alt=\"Devin Mumey Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Mumey-Devin.jpg 750w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Mumey-Devin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Mumey-Devin-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/devin-mumey\/\">Devin Mumey<\/a>! Devin 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>Devin Mumey is an undergraduate at Eastern Washington University working towards a major in Biology with a focus on Plant Sciences and a minor in Chemistry. He is interested in studying hybrid fruits and crossbreeding, as well as disease resistance. For his McNair Summer Research Internship, he will be working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/biology\/faculty-staff\/\">Dr. Jessica Allen<\/a> collecting and identifying lichen species. Future research interests include blueberry scorch disease and blackberry orange rust, as well as creating cold-hardy cultivars of tropical fruits, and the tissue culture and propagation of rare or endangered plants.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to accompanying Devin as his research unfolds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar Devin Mumey! Devin 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=\"Devin Mumey Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/devin-mumey-2021\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Devin Mumey Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":8731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,572,9,14,15,556,26,28,127,34],"tags":[147,263,477,431,154,134,301,557],"class_list":["post-8729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-2022-cohort","category-2022-summer-research","category-acceptances-awards","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-devin-mumey","category-mcnair-mentors","category-news","category-research","category-scholars","tag-biology","tag-chemistry","tag-dr-jessica-allen","tag-ewu-mcnair-faculty-mentor","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship","tag-plant-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729"}],"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=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}