“Diversify Your Investments �€Is GraduateSchool in Your Portfolio?”is the title of a Jan. 21 McNair Colloquium in Graduate Education at West VirginiaUniversity.

The 7-9 p.m. event in the Mountainlair Blue Ballroom is designed to educate first-generation, low-income undergraduate students about the importance of graduate education and the steps they need to take to obtain it.

The annual colloquium is sponsored by the McNair Scholars Program, the Center for Black Culture and Research, WVU s Colleges of Human Resources and Education and Engineering and Mineral Resources, the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, Honors Program and the Office of Graduate Education.

Held in January each year, the colloquium commemorates the life of Dr. Ronald E. McNair, who died in the Challenger Space Shuttle on Jan. 28, 1986, during his second flight into space.

Dr. McNair was the second black astronaut and a first-generation college student who graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in physics. In his honor, the federal government named the McNair Scholars Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program for him.

The McNair Scholars Program also is now taking applications for its 2003 scholars.

For more information, call 293-4316 or go tohttp://www.wvu.edu/~mcnair