Opportunities for Students | Inclusive Graduate Education Network

While you are applying to graduate programs, we also encourage you to take advantage of programs that may help you build your professional network or develop skills that will help you succeed in graduate school. Some IGEN Partners hold conferences and workshops that may help you develop your network or provide opportunities to get support while developing your graduate application. Other IGEN partners may provide internship opportunities or scholarships/fellowships. Explore our partner opportunities to learn more.

The American Astronomical Society (AAS), one of the founding partners of IGEN, is working to bring equity and to increase inclusion in graduate education and in post-graduate research opportunities in astronomical sciences.
The American Chemical Society is one of five scientific societies that have founded IGEN to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities in graduate studies in the chemical science and chemical engineering.
The American Physical Society (APS) is a founding society partner of IGEN. Since 2012, its APS Bridge Program partners have helped to close the gap in participation of Black, Latinx and Indigenous participation in physics graduate studies.
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories by engaging in the development and testing of mentorship curricular resources.
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories.
CHESS is committed to developing a pipeline for UREM students to transition into professional careers and to attend to their professional development.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories.
Fermilab has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories.
IGEN Engagement Google, which is an IGEN partner, has been an IGEN National Meeting sponsor and continues to provide financial support to IGEN in its efforts to increase equity in graduate STEM education. Google is committed to developing a pipeline for UREM students to transition into professional careers and to attend to their professional development. As such, we are developing materials for training of their research mentors, and constructing logistic guidelines to make students known to hiring managers and researchers.
Idaho National Laboratory (INL), which is an IGEN Partner, regularly participates in IGEN meetings and programs like the Professional Networking Group, a private LinkedIn Group which is designed to connect graduate students with national labs representatives.
The NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) is a partnership of over 30 societies, institutions, organizations, corporations, and national laboratories poised to lead a paradigm shift in increasing the participation of Black, Latinx and Indigenous students who enter graduate or doctorate level programs in the physical sciences. Its mission is to raise doctoral degree attainment rates of these groups in the physical sciences to match their bachelors degree attainment rates.
JPL has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories by engaging in the development and testing of mentorship curricular resources.
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory is committed to developing a pipeline for UREM students to transition into professional careers and to attend to their professional development.
LBNL has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories.
LANL has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories.
The Materials Research Society (MRS), a founding member of IGEN, is working to bring equity and to increase inclusion in graduate education and in post-graduate research opportunities in materials science and engineering.
NASA Goddard, which is an IGEN Partner, regularly participates in the IGEN CIMER project to develop postdoctoral mentoring.
MagLab has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories by engaging in the development and testing of mentorship curricular resources.
NIST has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is an IGEN Partner, regularly participates in IGEN meetings and programs like the Professional Networking Group, a private LinkedIn Group which is designed to connect graduate students with national labs representatives.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is committed to developing a pipeline for UREM students to transition into professional careers and to attend to their professional development.
SNL has partnered with IGEN to network with graduate students in IGEN Partner programs and increase the use of inclusive mentoring practices in national laboratories.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is committed to developing a pipeline for UREM students to transition into professional careers and to attend to their professional development.