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Congress Moves to Boost TRIO Funding
Congress Moves to Boost TRIO Funding, Addresses Formatting in Grant Competitions. The House and Senate reached an agreement regarding funding for FY17 (academic year 2017-18) over the weekend. The legislation includes a $50 million (or 5.6%) increase in TRIO funding as well as report language that directs the Department to provide increased funding to all existing TRIO grants, […]
Scholar Honors
Augsburg McNair Scholar Earns NSF GRFP
Augsburg senior Mike Alves (chemistry) has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship that recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in STEM disciplines. NSF received 13,000 applications this cycle and awarded 2,000 grants. Fellows benefit from a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition […]
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Research
2017 FIU McNair Scholars Research Conference Registration Open
The FIU McNair Scholars Research Conference will be taking place on October 19-20, 2017 in sunny Miami, FL. The FIU McNair Scholars Research Conference offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary forum in which undergraduate students can share their work and partake in various professional development experiences. This year’s conference promises to be an amazing experience for all. […]
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Wisconsin Madison McNair Alum Earns APSA Minority Fellowship Program
Alysia Mann Carey is a doctoral student at the University of Chicago. Born in Madison, WI, she earned a BA in Spanish languages and literature, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies, and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was also a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and a PEOPLE Program scholar. She then received […]
