Benefits of the UI McNair Program
Benefits
You will benefit from a structured set of scholarly activities designed to enhance your academic success as well as to expose and encourage you to target a new vista – graduate education and the doctoral degree. You will attend a series of seminars, workshops, and informal gatherings to better inform you about graduate opportunities. These events will provide information and encourage dialogue between you, your faculty mentors, your graduate student mentors, and McNair staff. These discussions will facilitate your understanding of what it means to be a graduate student and to encourage you to consider the opportunity of joining the professoriate as a faculty member in the future. UI McNair Scholars will participate in the following activities and receive the following benefits:
- McNair Scholar Workshops – academic &
professional development
- McNair Q&A Discovery Groups – conversations
with scholars
- McNair Scholars Journal Clubs & Seminars – read and hear about cutting-edge research
- 8-week intensive Summer Research Experience – at the lab bench
- $3,200 summer stipend + room & board1 + transportation to/from Iowa2
- access to New Dimensions in Learning, which provides academic planning counseling, personal advising, workshops, study skill assistance, and tutorials
- attendance/participation at the UI Summer Undergraduate Research conference
- attendance/participation at the annual
CIC/SROP conference
- mentorship in completing your graduate school applications
1 Non-UI students will be provided with room and board in a UI dormitory for completion of the 8-week summer research experience.
2 Non-UI students will be reimbursed for transportation to/from Iowa for completion of the 8-week summer research experience.