The original Lake City library building, now known as the Ronald E. McNair Life History Center. Image via ArtFields In the summer of 1959 he located the book in the Lake City public library.

where early childhood elementary director Mary Howard said they waste no time teaching kids about McNair. “We would always use his book ‘Ron’s Big Mission’ as a jump-off in the early ...

His first space shuttle mission launched successfully from Kennedy Space Center on February 3, 1984. Dr. Ronald E. McNair was the second African American to fly in space. Two years later he was ...

RIT’s Ronald E. McNair Scholars program is conducting its annual recruitment. New students are only admitted to the program once a year. If you are a student –or- if you know of students who may be ...

Initiated by Congress and established by the U.S. Department of Education in 1989, the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Program is one of the federal TRiO programs. It is named in memory of ...