{"id":8745,"date":"2022-06-23T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:19:08","slug":"quentin-young-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/quentin-young-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Young Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Young-Quentin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Quentin Young Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar\" class=\"wp-image-8746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Young-Quentin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Young-Quentin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/2021-Young-Quentin.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/quentin-young\/\">Quentin Young<\/a>! Quentin 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>Quentin N. Young is an undergraduate at Eastern Washington University majoring in Applied Developmental Psychology and Minoring in Africana studies and Coaching. He is interested in becoming a sports psychologist and opening up his own private practices and sport facilities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/africana-studies\/contact-us\/\">Dr. Okera Nsombi<\/a> will be Quentin&#8217;s mentor for his 2022 Summer Research Internship. Quentin&#8217;s goal is to break down barriers as a Black man in a predominately white profession and help young Black children in the local communities. Quentin is a Dean&#8217;s list student with a GPA of 3.6. After he completes his undergrad, he will go into graduate school where he will complete his PhD in Psychology. Quentin&#8217;s goal is to have an impact on many lives by changing the landscape for his community and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to accompanying Quentin as his research unfolds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar Quentin Young! Quentin 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.\u00a0 The federally-funded TRIO Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program at EWU selects motivated and talented juniors and seniors &#8230; <a title=\"Quentin Young Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/quentin-young-2021\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Quentin Young Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":8746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,572,9,385,568,26,28,31,567,127,34],"tags":[269,547,570,571,287,431,154,134,301,160,569],"class_list":["post-8745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-2022-cohort","category-2022-summer-research","category-acceptances-awards","category-africana-studies-all-majors","category-coaching","category-mcnair-mentors","category-news","category-psychology","category-quentin-young","category-research","category-scholars","tag-africana-studies","tag-applied-developmental-psychology","tag-coaching","tag-deans-list","tag-dr-okera-nsombi","tag-ewu-mcnair-faculty-mentor","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship","tag-psychology","tag-sports-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745"}],"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=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37409,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions\/37409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}