Pathways
| AGEP: | Alliances for Graduate and the Professoriate Program |
| ABRCMS: | Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students |
| ADVANCE: | Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers |
| AISES: | American Indian Science and Engineering Society |
| AMIE: | Advancing Minorities Interest in Engineering: a non-profit organization created to provide a proactive approach to fostering diversity as an essential business strategy. The outcome of an initiative by Abbott Laboratories in 1992, AMIE is a coalition of representatives and engineering professionals from Fortune 500 companies and the ABET accredited Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) who see a diversified workforce as a competitive advantage. |
| BREU: | Biology Research Experience for Undergraduates: funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, hires undergraduate students half time for academic year and full time for summer to conduct research in the laboratory of a faculty mentor and an annual Poster Symposium, outreach program for local Community Colleges, etc. |
| CEMSWE: | The Coalition for Engineering Minorities and the Society of Women Engineers |
| CIC: | Committee on Institutional Cooperation |
| CRA_W: | works to increase the number and successes of women in computing research and higher education Ford Foundation Fellows |
| EOT-PACI: | Education, Outreach and Training, Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure: NSF's national program |
| GEM: | The National GEM Consortium |
| HBCU: | Historically Black College or University |
| HSI: | Hispanic Serving Institution |
| IGERT: | Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship |
| IUPAP: | International Union of Pure and Applied Physics sponsors the Interntl. Conf. on Women in Physics |
| LEAP: | Leveraging Experience to Accelerate Progress Conference |
| LSAMP: | Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation |
| MARC: | Minority Access to Research Careers: funded by the National Institute of Health, provides tuition waivers and monthly stipends to do research in the laboratory of faculty from participating departments. |
| MIE: | Model Institutions for Excellence |
| MSI: | Minority Serving Institution |
| MSO: | Minority Serving Organization |
| NACME: | National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering |
| NCSI: | National Computational Science Institute: NSF funded to advance undergraduate computational science education particularly small to medium sized universities |
| NEBHE: | New England Board of Higher Education |
| NEIST: | New England Indians in Science & Technology |
| NHEC: | National Hispanic Environmental Council |
| NSBE: | National Society of Black Engineers |
| SACNAS: | Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences |
| SEA: | Science and Engineering Alliance |
| SHPE: | Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers |
| SOARS: | Significant Opportunities for Atmospheric Research in Science |
| SROP: | Summer Research Opportunities Program: A program to interest talented undergraduate minority students in academic careers and to enhance their preparation for graduate study through intensive research experience with faculty members. A Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) program. |
| SWE: | Society of Women Engineers |
| TCUP: | Tribal Colleges and Universities Program |
| WEPAN: | Women in Engineering Program and Advocates Network |
| WIE: | Women in Engineering |
| WISE: | Women in Science and Engineering |
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