The University of North Texas, one of the NRC grant recipients. (Photo: Michael Barera)
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced its Minority-Serving Institutions Grants Program (MSIG) awards for fiscal year 2023. Four institutions were granted a total of $997,943: University of North Texas ($400,000 for fellowships), University of Central Florida ($397,943 for fellowships), University of Nevada–Las Vegas ($100,000 for scholarships), and Virginia Commonwealth University ($100,000 for scholarships).
More details about the grants for this year will be posted on the NRC’s grant awards website, where recipients of awards from previous years can also be seen.
About MSIG: Minority-serving institutions are a federally recognized category of educational institutions that include Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions.
The annual MSIG awards are directed at funding “minority-serving programs, activities, projects, symposiums, and training for the exchange and transfer of knowledge and skills relevant to nuclear safety, security, environmental protection, or any other fields the Commission deems critical to its mission,” according to the NRC.
Examples of funded activities include mentoring, training, instruction, developmental learning, research and development, leadership development, program evaluation, and technical assistance. Funding also covers internships, fellowships, scholarships, tuition and housing assistance, institutional subsidies, and facilities and equipment acquisition.
Grant opportunities: The NRC encourages institutions to apply for MSIG funding, as well as funding through the NRC’s Nuclear Education Program in the categories of scholarship and fellowship, faculty development, and trade school and community college scholarship. Various grant opportunities from the NRC and other federal agencies can be found at grants.gov.
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