While many students spent their summer working at a summer job, or relaxing at home or basking in the fact that they had nothing to do.For six Winston-Salem State University students, they spend their summer doing old fashion research.Elisa Haywood, Michael Boone, Travis Parker, Curtis Norman, Mignon Turner. Joevanne Estrada-Hammond were six of 29 students who took part in the Ronald McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement summer Program at the University of Tennessee.The Program is named after the African-American physicist/astronaut who died aboard the Challenger Spaceship. The program was launched in 1989-1990, by the U.S. Department of Education at fourteen colleges and universities was created to encourage and provide research opportunities for first generation, low income and underrepresented undergraduate students who desire to pursue doctoral degrees. The students undertook various research projects under the guidance of professors that related directly to their various fields of study.At the end of the summer program in July, the students were able to present their research projects.