{"id":86360,"date":"2025-06-10T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=86360"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:19:54","slug":"back-story-2","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/back-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Nurturing Talent:<\/b><\/span><b> <\/b><span class=\"s3\">Created to honor Ronald E. McNair,<\/span> <span class=\"s3\">the heroic astronaut and physicist who perished in the 1986 Challenger disaster, for the past 30 years EWU\u2019s federally funded TRIO\/McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program has helped dozens of talented first-generation, low-income and otherwise underrepresented undergraduates prepare for graduate programs that lead to careers as professors and professional researchers. This image, made in the early 2000s, shows McNair Scholar Yolanda Valencia \u201902 during a student research presentation. Valencia, now a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, completed her doctorate at the University of Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EWU\u2019s federally funded TRIO\/McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program has helped dozens of talented students succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":86362,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-86360","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-campus","stories_tags-spring-summer-2025"],"acf":{"subheading":"","featured_image_format":"cover","display_byline":false,"display_featured_image":true,"display_date_published":false,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_override_title":"","page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/86360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/86360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86369,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/86360\/revisions\/86369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}