Resources and Conferences

Resources

General Information

• McNair Scholars
• McNair Scholars Rock

Financial Resources

• McNair Fee Waiver List
• National Fellowships

Writing Resources

• Purdue OWL
• Writing abstracts

Graduate School Resources

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

Summer Research Opportunities

• Ivy league and other elite schools
• Big Ten Schools
• Pathways to Science
• NSF, NIH, NASA, and other REUs
• Various institutions' STEM-related REUs
• University of Arizona

2021–22 McNair Conferences

• Baylor University (virtual)
  August 19–20, 2021
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County (virtual)
  September 17–18, 2021
• MKN McNair Heartland Research Conference (in-person)
  September 24–25, 2021
• SACNAS’ National Diversity in STEM Conference (virtual)
  October 25–29, 2021
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (virtual)
  November 10–13, 2021
• The PhD Project (TBA)
  November 17–19, 2021
• University of North Texas (TBA)
  February 2022 (TBA)
• University of Maryland (virtual)
  March 2022 (TBA)
• University of Washington - Annual Gabriel E. Gallardo Symposium (virtual)
  April 2022 (TBA)
• SAEOPP (virtual)
  June 2022 (TBA)
• University of Buffalo (TBA)
  July 2022 (TBA)
• University of California, Los Angeles (virtual)
  July 2022 (TBA)
• The University of New Mexico (TBA)
  Late summer/early fall of 2022 (TBA)