{"id":9782,"date":"2023-06-06T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:56:21","slug":"mai-peregrina-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mai-peregrina-selected\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai Peregrina Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9763\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/05\/2022-Peregrina-Mai.jpg\" alt=\"Mai Peregrina Selected\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/05\/2022-Peregrina-Mai.jpg 750w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/05\/2022-Peregrina-Mai-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/05\/2022-Peregrina-Mai-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/thomas-cyphers\/\">Mai Peregrina<\/a><\/strong>! Mai was selected by the McNair Scholars\u2019 selection committee on the basis of her\u00a0passion for research, commitment to attaining a PhD, and overall potential for success in graduate school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\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<\/div>\n<p>Mai is majoring in Psychology at Eastern Washington University. She is a member of the Alpha Phi sorority and is the President of the Panhellenic Council here at EWU. For her upcoming McNair Research Project she will be working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/experts\/kayleen-islam-zwart\/\"><strong>Dr. Islam-Zwart<\/strong><\/a> as her mentor. Mai plans to research how students from her institution (EWU) will judge a criminal knowing that they have psychological issues. Mai is interested in the field of Forensic Psychology. After graduation, she plans to pursue her academic goals with earning a Ph.D. and is looking forward to applying to programs. She sees herself in the future working in court systems to evaluate whether mentally ill offenders should be treated institutionally or incarcerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar\u00a0Mai Peregrina! Mai was selected by the McNair Scholars\u2019 selection committee on the basis of her\u00a0passion 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 are &#8230; <a title=\"Mai Peregrina Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mai-peregrina-selected\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mai Peregrina Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":9763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[594,637,9,625,26,28,31,127,34],"tags":[651,161,431,154,134,301,652,653,160],"class_list":["post-9782","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-mai-peregrina","category-mcnair-mentors","category-news","category-psychology","category-research","category-scholars","tag-alpha-phi","tag-dr-kayleen-islam-zwart","tag-ewu-mcnair-faculty-mentor","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship","tag-forensic-psychology","tag-panhellenic-council","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782"}],"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=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9783,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions\/9783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}