We’re Recruiting! Seeking Applications this Fall, 2024, Priority Deadline, November 15th!
Trio Ronald E. McNair Scholar Program
What we offer:
- Paid research internship opportunities
- Assistance securing financial aid
- Grad school preparation seminars
- Research mentoring
- Academic counseling and one-on-one support
- Conference travel funding opportunities
- Feedback on graduate applications and research internship applications
- Fee waivers on graduate applications
Who we serve:
- We’re happy to meet with any student who is interested in or has questions about going to graduate school
- To be eligible to be a scholar, you must be:
- a sophomore, junior, or senior with at least one future summer and fall before graduation; and
- interested going to graduate school and attaining a PhD; and
- first generation and low-income college student; and/or
- from racial background(s) underrepresented at the doctoral level
The federally-funded TRIO Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program at EWU selects motivated and talented sophomores and juniors who are first-generation and low-income college students, and/or from racial groups underrepresented at the doctoral level (African American/Black, Latinx, Native American, and/or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) to introduce them to academic research and provide them with effective strategies for getting into and graduating from PhD programs. Operating on a cohort model, the program prepares undergraduates for success as graduate students, professors, and professional researchers.
Links
EWU McNair News
Apply to EWU McNair Scholars Program
2023 Spring Gathering / Highlights and Photos
Student Resources for Graduate School Applications
56 Eastern TRIO McNair Scholars
have earned doctoral degrees
since McNair was first
federally-funded at EWU in 1995
Click here to see scholar names,
PhD programs, universities + additional links
Learn about what our current scholars and alumni are up to!
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