Get your STEM Graduate Degree! 

GEM is excited to announce the Spring 2023 GEM Getting Ready for Advanced Degrees Laboratory (GRAD Lab) hosted by the University of Rochester on Saturday, April 1, 2023. The event is co-sponsored by Binghamton University, University at Albany - SUNY, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Buffalo - SUNY, Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. There will be a virtual Roundtable, where you will get the chance to talk to department faculty. If you are remotely interested in going to graduate school to obtain your Master's or PhD degree, this is a FREE event you do not want to miss!  REGISTER NOW!

Registering ensures we have a resource packet for you AND actually creates a prospect card in their system, which feeds into the start of a fellowship application. We work in partnership with GEM to ensure you get as much information about the opportunities that a graduate degree has to offer.

REGISTER NOW for the event. REGISTRATION IS FREE! A HUGE raffle will be conducted for those participants that stay until the conclusion of the presentation. Thank you and we hope that you can join us. 

Kindly see attached poster below for more details!

Summer Research Applications Open

Summer research applications are now open and are due March 27. This summer McNair will again offer a 10-week summer research intensive fully in-person at RIT.  The stipend package totals $5500 for the summer.  You do not have to know who your research mentor will be to apply for the summer program.  Priority for funding will be given to students who have not completed research at RIT in the past. Student researchers are not allowed to take classes or work another job (on or off campus) during the summer program without prior written approval from both the program director and their faculty mentor. 

For more details and to apply, please use the link to the application below. 

New McNair Graduate Assistant

We have a new graduate assistant for the program!

Dee Murray is finishing up her master’s degree in Health and Well-being Management for the Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition under the College of Health Science and Technology. She completed her bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences here at RIT last May of 2021.

Before going to RIT, Dee went to a local community college (Monroe Community College) and was a member of the CSTEP program there. She participated in undergraduate research under the BRIDGES program in Binghamton University as a student research immersion scholar for the Jentsch Laboratory. Her research was regarding the genetic examination of reward sensitivity. She also presented her research during the 2017 summer conference of the McNair Scholars Program held in Buffalo, NY.