The NSF's Alliances for Broadening Participation in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) grant program strives to increase the number of students completing graduate degrees in these areas of study. Grants support graduate students from the undergraduate through the doctoral level. The program also works to attract and retain doctoral students into faculty positions after graduation.
The NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate grant program aims to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities graduating from science, technology, engineering and math graduate programs. African Americans, Native Alaskans, Native Americans and Latinos are eligible. Grants offer support for graduate education through the doctoral level. More than 100 universities participate in the program.
The NSF's Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation program provides grants for collaborations between two to three graduate students and up to three investigators. Grants support research into innovative issues in cyber technology and computational thinking. Projects must "generate groundbreaking multidisciplinary research and education outcomes across biological sciences, computer and information sciences, education, engineering, geosciences and mathematical sciences," according to grant guidelines.