Ronald McNair succeeded despite poverty, racism, and an education system designed to keep Black people down. He became an accidental revolutionary at the age of nine, when he broke the color ...

January 28 is the anniversary of the Challenger explosion. One of the astronauts aboard was Dr. Ronald McNair. McNair was born in Lake City in Florence County. Dr. McNair graduated from North ...

UB’s McNair Scholars Program is a federally funded TRIO program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. It is named in honor of Dr. Ronald E. McNair, a pioneering African-American astronaut who ...

“Extraordinary” and “Hometown hero” are a few words to describe Lake City Native Dr. Ronald E. McNair. McNair graduated valedictorian from Lake City’s Carvers High School in 1967 before ...

Get outside and enjoy the beautiful afternoon, we are giving you the FIRST ALERT to rain chances returning tomorrow. A Georgetown County group is working to empower the next generation of young ...

Ronald Erwin McNair was born October 21, 1950 in Lake City, South Carolina. While in junior high school, Dr. McNair was inspired to work hard and persevere in his studies by his family and by a ...

All disciplines are encouraged to apply. The McNair Program is named in honor of the late Dr. Ronald E. McNair, one of seven crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. Despite social and ...

McNair scholars will receive a $2,800 stipend for their participation in the summer research project. The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement is a federal program that prepares first ...

Students and their families dig holes where they would later plant a ginkgo tree at Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy in East Palo Alto on Jan. 21, 2025. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. A new green ...

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 ...