About the Journal

The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program prepares low-income, first-generation college students and students from underrepresented groups to pursue graduate study that culminates in PhD degrees. At the encouragement of the McNair Foundation, Congress named the program to honor the legacy of Ronald McNair, an African American NASA astronaut and physicist who died aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. Each year, the UO supports approximately twenty-eight qualifying undergraduate McNair Scholars who show potential and commitment to complete doctoral-level work. 

From 2005 to 2017 McNair Scholars' work was published in print in the McNair Research Journal. Thanks to University of Oregon Libraries Digital Library Services team this run of print journals was digitized and is now available online. In 2023 after a gap in publishing, the TRIO McNair Scholars Program partnered with the Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal (OURJ) to publish a digital collection of McNair Scholars’ capstone research projects. This new iteration of the journal has been coined the TRIO McNair Scholars Research Journal.