{"id":9777,"date":"2023-05-11T11:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T18:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=9777"},"modified":"2023-05-11T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T18:54:30","slug":"sylvia-kennerly-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/sylvia-kennerly-selected\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Kennerly Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"SylviaCongratulations to new McNair Scholar\u00a0<\/span>Sylvia Kennerly<\/a><\/strong>! Sylvia was selected by the McNair Scholars\u2019 selection committee on the basis of her passion for research, commitment to attaining a PhD, and overall potential for success in graduate school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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<\/div>\n

Sylvia<\/span>\u00a0is an aspiring researcher majoring in Biochemistry at Eastern Washington University.\u00a0<\/span>Growing up in Seward, Alaska, Sylvia developed a fascination with science at an early age that has\u00a0<\/span>evolved to her interest in the intricacies of cellular pathways and the role of biochemistry in human\u00a0<\/span>health. Driven by her curiosity Sylvia has engaged in a research project with Dr. Burgis<\/a><\/strong> in winter quarter\u00a0<\/span>of 2023 exploring the expression of variant ITPase on human neuron cells. For her 2023 summer research internship, she will be working with mentor Dr. Jason Ashley<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In addition to her academic pursuits, Sylvia enjoys spending her free time outside exploring the Spokane\u00a0<\/span>area in the summer with her family and taking road trips to National parks. Her favorite travel destination\u00a0<\/span>was the cloud rainforests of Costa Rica.<\/span><\/div>\n
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As a student with strong interest in pursuing a career in biochemistry, Sylvia has set her sights on earning\u00a0<\/span>a PhD in biochemistry. Through further research and laboratory experience, she hopes to make a positive\u00a0<\/span>impact towards human health and disease research. Sylvia\u2019s unwavering commitment to scientific inquiry\u00a0<\/span>and their determination to grow and learn new fields makes her a promising scholar.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to new McNair Scholar\u00a0Sylvia Kennerly! Sylvia was selected by the McNair Scholars\u2019 selection committee on the basis of her 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":9761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[594,637,9,645,26,28,127,34,624],"tags":[264,647,483,646,431,154,134,301],"class_list":["post-9777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2022-2023-cohort","category-2023-mcnair-summer-research-internship","category-acceptances-awards","category-biochemistry","category-mcnair-mentors","category-news","category-research","category-scholars","category-sylvia-kennerly","tag-biochemistry","tag-disease-research","tag-dr-jason-ashley","tag-dr-nicholas-burgis","tag-ewu-mcnair-faculty-mentor","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777"}],"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=9777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9793,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions\/9793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}