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

2025–26 McNair Conferences

• The PhD Project: March 20–21, 2025 (Chicago, Illinois)
• University of Washington – Annual Gabriel E. Gallardo Symposium: April 14–16, 2025 (Seattle, Washington)
• University of California, Los Angeles: July 28–30, 2025 (Los Angeles, California)
• Baylor University: Aug. 7–8, 2025 (Waco, Texas)
• The University of New Mexico: September 4–5, 2025 (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
• University of Maryland: Sept. 17–20, 2025 (Baltimore, Maryland)
• SACNAS’ National Diversity in STEM Conference: Oct. 30–Nov 1, 2025 (Phoenix, Arizona)
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students: Nov. 19–22, 2025 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)