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
• University of Michigan
• Purdue University
• University of California Irvine
• Stanford University–Engineering
• University of Minnesota–Life Sciences

2026–27 McNair Conferences

• University of Washington - Annual Gabriel E. Gallardo Symposium: April 20–22, 2026 (Seattle, WA)
• Baylor University: Aug. 6–7 2026 (Waco, TX)
• The University of New Mexico: September 10–11, 2026 (Albuquerque, NM)
• University of Maryland Baltimore County:September 16–19, 2026 (Baltimore, MD)
• SACNAS’ National Diversity in STEM Conference: Oct. 29–31, 2026 (Long Beach, CA)
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students: Nov. 18–21, 2026 (Seattle, WA)
• The PhD Project: March 18–19, 2027 (Chicago, IL)
• University of California, Los Angeles: July 26–28, 2027 (Los Angeles, CA)