Resources and Conferences

Resources

General Information

• McNair Scholars
• McNair Scholars Rock

Financial Resources

• McNair Fee Waiver List
• National Fellowships
• McNair-specific Fellowships

Writing Resources

• Purdue OWL
• Writing abstracts

Graduate School Resources

• Resources for graduate students
• Resources for preparing graduate school applications

Summer Research Opportunities

• Big Ten Academic Alliance
• The Leadership Alliance (ivy league and other elite schools)
• Pathways to Science: Fully-Funded STEM Programs
• Grand Valley State University: Cell and Molecular Biology
• University of Arizona
• Eastern Carolina University: Biomedical Engineering in Simulations, Imaging, and Modeling
• RISE at Rutgers
• University of Rochester:
  • Data Science
  • Optics
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Chemistry
• University of Notre Dame
• Northwestern University

2022–23 McNair Conferences

• Baylor University: Aug. 4–5, 2022 (in-person)
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Sept. 16–17, 2022 (in-person)
• MKN McNair Heartland Research Conference: Sept. 24–26 (in-person)
• SACNAS’ National Diversity in STEM Conference: Oct. 27–29, 2022 (in-person)
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students: Nov. 9–12, 2022 (virtual)
• The PhD Project: Nov. 16–17, 2022
  
• University of Maryland: March 17–20, 2022 (in-person)
• University of Washington - Annual Gabriel E. Gallardo Symposium: April 18–20, 2022 (in-person)
• SAEOPP: June 23–26, 2022
• University of Buffalo: July 21–22, 2022 (virtual)
• University of California, Los Angeles: July 27–29, 2022
• The University of New Mexico: 2023 dates TBA