{"id":9786,"date":"2023-06-09T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2023-06-09T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:42:00","slug":"makenna-tabino-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/makenna-tabino-selected\/","title":{"rendered":"Makenna Tabino 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-9765\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/05\/2022-Tabino-Makenna.jpg\" alt=\"Makenna Tabino Selected\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/05\/2022-Tabino-Makenna.jpg 750w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/05\/2022-Tabino-Makenna-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/05\/2022-Tabino-Makenna-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\/makenna-tabino\/\">Makenna Tabino<\/a><\/strong>! Makenna 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<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 dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">Makenna will graduate from Eastern Washington University with a B.S. in Biology<\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0(Wildlife Management Track)<\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">. As a Running Start student, she spent her last two years of high school attending EWU as a full-time student. She is passionate about ecology and conservation,<\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0especially in regards to wetlands.<\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0Some of her interests include restoration ecology, wetland management, and community (multi-species) interactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">She is currently <\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">working on a research project<\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0with her mentor, department chair <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/experts\/rebecca-l-brown\/\">Dr. Rebecca Brown<\/a><\/strong>, to <\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">investigate the long-term effectiveness of aquatic mowing on maintaining wetland vegetative diversity. This project is a collaboration with the nonprofit <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ducks.org\">Ducks Unlimited<\/a><\/strong>, and it is being led by manager of conservation programs Chris Bonsignore.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to new McNair Scholar\u00a0Makenna Tabino! Makenna 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Makenna Tabino Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/makenna-tabino-selected\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Makenna Tabino Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":9765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[594,637,9,14,627,26,28,127,34],"tags":[147,248,660,431,154,134,301,661,662,659],"class_list":["post-9786","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-biology","category-makenna-tabino","category-mcnair-mentors","category-news","category-research","category-scholars","tag-biology","tag-dr-rebecca-brown","tag-ducks-unlimited","tag-ewu-mcnair-faculty-mentor","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship","tag-restoration-ecology","tag-wetland-diversity","tag-wildlife-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786"}],"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=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9787,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions\/9787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}