AGEP: Alliances for Graduate and the Professoriate Program
ABRCMS: Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
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 ½ 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
INRP: IGERT National Recruitment Program
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
