{"id":15992,"date":"2026-07-13T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=15992"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:24:18","slug":"i-am-umes-nylah-mcclain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/i-am-umes-nylah-mcclain\/","title":{"rendered":"I AM UMES: Nylah McClain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I AM UMES: Nylah McClain\" width=\"1330\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sR-PDbWfLNg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aspiration to become a researcher in Japan was not part of the plan for Nylah McClain when she enrolled at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as a freshman.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now a research graduate assistant in the Marine-Estuarine Environmental Science (MEES) program, McClain made her first trip to Japan as UMES&#8217;s first Boren study abroad student.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She attributes clarity in her chosen field of study to the thoughtful guidance of her professors and the discovery of a different culture through language and international studies offered at UMES.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nylah has Hawk Pride, and she wants others to catch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aspiration to become a researcher in Japan was not part of the plan for Nylah McClain when she enrolled at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as a freshman.&nbsp; Now a research graduate assistant in the Marine-Estuarine Environmental Science (MEES) program, McClain made her first trip to Japan as UMES&#8217;s first Boren study abroad&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/i-am-umes-nylah-mcclain\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">I AM UMES: Nylah McClain<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":16148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-15992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15992"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=15992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}