Science and Engineering Fellowships
- AAAS Career Resources: internships, fellowships, and other opportunities for scientists
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: for minority students in STEM fields
- Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate: for minority students in STEM fields
- American Geological Institute: minority participation program
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society: several funding opportunities
- American Meteorological Society: scholarships and fellowships
- American Nuclear Society: variety of scholarships for undergrads and grads
- American Physical Society M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship: for women in Physics tracks
- American Society for Engineering Education: links to various science and engineering funding opportunities
- Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association: scholarships for various disciplines
- Central Intelligence Agency: support opportunitites for a variety of disciplines
- Community of Science: registry of funding opportunities and registry of scientists; quick guide to COS navigation
- Collegiate Inventors Competition: for engineering and inventive disciplines
- Environmental Protection Agency: fellowship opportunities
- Geological Society of America: various grants and awards, including travel grants
- IBM Intern and Co-op Program: especially for first-year grad students
- IGERT: Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
- Jefferson Science Fellowship: for experienced science researchers
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory: summer research program available for graduate students
- MS PhD: program for minority Ph.D. students in Earth Systems Science and Engineering
- NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program: see the details regarding the Graduate student track
- NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program: science, mathematics, engineering
- NASA Space Grant Program: state-by-state links to Space Grant Consortia; fellowships, scholarships in STEM
- National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship: for Ph.D.-seeking students
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships: for both Master's and Ph.D. students
- Naval Research Intern Program: 10-week internship opportunities
- Office of Naval Research: doctoral fellowships in many fields
- Research Associateship Program: science and engineering
- Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog: note the Categories links in the upper-right corner
- Smithsonian Institution: various fellowship opportunities with the Smithsonian system
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: variety of disciplines
- Society of Women Engineers: engineering, engineering technology, computer science
- The Hertz Foundation: fellowships for physical, biological, or engineering sciences
- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research: various, including the Young Investigator's Program
- U.S. Dept. of Agriculture: grants pages
- U.S. Dept. of Defense: medical funding opportunities
- World Wildlife Foundation: several opportunities in science and conservation
- XEROX Technical Minority Scholarship Program: for minorities studying fields related to imaging technology
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The key component of the McNair Program is the Summer Research Internship.
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The undergraduate research experience is considered an effective educational tool for enhancing many aspects of the student experience.