McNair Scholars benefits and services
The McNair Scholars Program provides year-round services to prepare participants for acceptance into the quality graduate programs of their choice.
- Matched with a faculty mentor whose research interests are related to your own academic interests
- Participate in a six-week summer research internship under the direction of your faculty mentor
- Receive stipend for participation in the academic year and summer research components
- Write an abstract and paper based on your summer research findings which will be presented at a national McNair Research Symposium and the UNR McNair Research Symposium
- Assistance in defining, setting, and realizing your educational goals
- Academic year seminars designed to ensure success in graduate school
- Intensive GRE preparation
- Individual tutoring
- Career counseling
- Enhanced study skills and test taking instruction
- Credit bearing research methods course aimed at developing your McNair Scholars project
- Seminars on writing and research skills
- Presentation and delivery training
- Financial aid counseling
- Travel to professional conferences
- Visits to graduate programs
- Individual assistance with graduate school applications
- GRE fee waiver
- Application fee waivers at selected institutions
- Professional networking opportunities
- Name posted to a national graduate colleges recruitment database
- Graduate fellowships at selected universities
- Benefit from a supportive network of McNair Scholars who, like you, are working toward a graduate degree