Internships, returnship programs, and career development resources — whether you're entering STEM for the first time, returning after a break, or advancing mid-career.
Structured, paid programs for people returning to STEM after a career break — typically 8–16 weeks with a path to a full-time offer.
A nonprofit that partners with major companies to offer paid returnship programs for professionals returning to work after a career break fo…
A Society of Women Engineers initiative connecting women returning to engineering after a career break with corporate return-to-work program…
The Association for Women in Science offers multiple annual scholarships including the Distinguished Doctoral Research Scholarship ($10,000)…
The UK's only fellowship program specifically for researchers returning to STEM after a career break of two or more years, combining a perso…
A fellowship program launched in 2004 awarding women from developing and emerging economies up to $50,000 per year to pursue PhD or postdoct…
NIH / Office of Research on Women's Health
NIH administrative supplements that enable researchers returning to biomedical research after a career break of two or more years due to per…
A paid summer software engineering internship at Google designed for first- and second-year undergraduate students from groups historically …
Microsoft
A 16-week paid apprenticeship program at Microsoft for career-changers with non-traditional backgrounds — including bootcamp graduates and c…
JPMorgan Chase
A paid 15-week returnship program at JPMorgan Chase for experienced professionals, including technologists, who have been out of the workfor…
Fellowships of $20,000 to $50,000 for women who are not US citizens or permanent residents to pursue full-time graduate or postgraduate stud…
Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
Up to two awards of $2,500 each for STEM-credentialed professionals returning to careers after being out of the workforce for more than one …
Society of Women Engineers
$2,000 scholarship (established 1978) for women returning to engineering or computer science after a career gap of at least two years out of…
Amazon
Amazon's summer SDE internship places undergraduate and graduate students on engineering teams across AWS, retail, and other business units …
A continually updated directory of paid employer return-to-work programs (returnships) worldwide, many in STEM and technology, for experienc…
Amazon
A return-to-work program for women who have taken a career break of 12 months or more and are re-entering the workforce, including in techni…
reacHIRE runs return-to-work programs that place professionals coming off a career break directly into paid roles at partner employers, typi…
Audible
A paid full-time returnship at Audible for experienced professionals re-entering the workforce after a caregiving break, spanning technology…
Cisco
Cisco's supported hiring program (Rejoin) for technical professionals in India and Australia returning after a career break of at least a ye…
Princeton University
NSF REU training site providing computational-biology research experience, with a focus on supporting formerly incarcerated undergraduate st…
Swiss National Science Foundation
Enables postdoctoral researchers connected to Switzerland to undertake a research stay abroad to strengthen their academic profile, with a 2…
Austria's FWF Science Fund funds early-career postdoctoral researchers to conduct research abroad at a leading international host institutio…
A UK program offering paid return-to-work placements for experienced STEM professionals re-entering the workforce.
Returnship program helping women with career breaks re-enter technical careers in IT and engineering through paid structured returnships and…
Provides coding and business/tech training plus reentry support to incarcerated men and women across facilities in multiple states, with rec…
Internships, apprenticeships, and structured entry pipelines at major tech and science employers — with structured early-career tracks.
An 11-month tuition-free software engineering program for women and gender-expansive adults, covering full-stack web development through a s…
A fellowship supporting exceptional PhD students in computing and related disciplines, providing tuition, stipend, and a paid research inter…
U.S. Department of Energy
A nationally competitive program placing undergraduate students at DOE national laboratories to conduct research alongside world-class scien…
A paid internship and mentorship program for undergraduate women and gender-minority students passionate about aerospace, providing a summer…
Intel
A scholarship of €3,000 for women enrolled in undergraduate engineering or computer science programs at Irish universities, paired with a pa…
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
An IAEA fellowship providing up to €40,000 in total support for women pursuing a master's degree in nuclear science, engineering, or related…
Amazon
$40,000 scholarship (paid over 4 years) for high school seniors from underrepresented and low-income backgrounds planning to study computer …
NASA MUREP
Scholarship for undergraduate students at women's colleges and universities pursuing STEM degrees. Provides up to $9,000 academic stipend pl…
Microsoft Research
Fellowship for second-year PhD students from underrepresented groups in computing including women. Covers tuition and fees for three years p…
National GEM Consortium
Provides opportunities for underrepresented minority students to pursue graduate education in applied science and engineering through paid s…
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
DOE CCI offers community college students 10-week paid internships at one of 17 DOE national laboratories, providing hands-on technical expe…
National Institutes of Health
The NIH SIP provides undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, graduate, and medical students with hands-on research experience at NIH's Bethesda c…
NASA
NASA offers competitive paid internships across all NASA centers for college students pursuing STEM majors, with 10-week summer sessions and…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The NOAA Hollings Scholarship provides academically talented undergraduates studying ocean, coastal, atmospheric, and related sciences with …
Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia offers summer, year-round, and co-op internships for undergraduates and graduates across engineering, computer science, cybersecurity…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory / ORISE
ORISE administers competitive paid research internships and fellowships for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers …
U.S. Department of Defense
The DOD SMART Scholarship provides full tuition, generous annual stipend, and summer research internships to undergraduates and graduate stu…
Microsoft
A 12-week summer internship at Microsoft for first- and second-year undergraduates to explore careers in software engineering and product ma…
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research offers paid internships for PhD students to collaborate with world-class researchers on projects in AI, machine learning,…
Apple
Apple offers paid internships across hardware engineering, software engineering, machine learning, and design for undergraduate and graduate…
IBM
A free virtual skills-building program for undergraduates providing exposure to IBM technology, career paths, and culture through online mod…
Palantir Technologies
A fellowship designed for students from underrepresented backgrounds in tech, offering mentorship, networking, and a pathway to Palantir int…
Jane Street
Highly competitive paid internships in software engineering, trading, research, and quantitative finance, providing deep exposure to functio…
Software Freedom Conservancy
Three-month paid remote internships with free and open source software organizations for people subject to systemic bias and underrepresenta…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A cost-free six-week summer program at MIT, run by the Center for Excellence in Education, bringing together about 100 top high school junio…
An eight-week paid summer program, administered by ASEE for the U.S. Navy, that places academically talented high school students as apprent…
A summer research internship placing undergraduates from North American, British, and Irish universities with research groups at German univ…
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
An NIH/NCI-funded summer internship in laboratory or clinical research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis for students prep…
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A 12-week paid summer internship at Fermilab for undergraduate sophomores and juniors majoring in physics, engineering (mechanical, electric…
Matthew Isakowitz Foundation
An annual award presented by the Commercial Space Federation in partnership with the Matthew Isakowitz Foundation Programs, supporting colle…
Patti Grace Smith Fellowship
An award-winning fellowship that gives extraordinary undergraduates their first work experience in the aerospace industry, pairing a paid su…
HHMI Janelia Research Campus
A ten-week summer research internship at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, for well-prepar…
U.S. Geological Survey
One of the longest continuously running science internship programs in the United States (since 1965), administered by the U.S. Geological S…
U.S. Department of Agriculture
A USDA scholarship for U.S. citizens pursuing a bachelor's degree at one of the nineteen 1890 land-grant universities in agriculture, food, …
The Actuarial Foundation
A renewable scholarship from The Actuarial Foundation supporting high school seniors pursuing careers in mathematics and the actuarial profe…
NASA
NASA's federal internship program that develops future civil servants across engineering, science, technology, and business disciplines at N…
A fellowship for full-time doctoral students working in data science and related fields including natural language processing, machine learn…
A fully funded 10-week summer research internship within the Novartis Biomedical Research division for undergraduate students with minimal p…
A global non-profit that arranges paid, on-site STEM (science, engineering, and technology) internships abroad for university students acros…
George Mason University
A nationally recognized eight-week summer research internship at George Mason University for high school and undergraduate students, offerin…
Apple's AI/ML PhD fellowship supports emerging research leaders in computer science and machine learning with up to two years of financial s…
Lunar and Planetary Institute (USRA)
A ten-week summer research internship operated by the Universities Space Research Association at the Lunar and Planetary Institute near NASA…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
A paid summer internship at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, giving undergraduate and graduate student…
The Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation offers numerous named scholarships to full-time undergraduate students majoring in plastics eng…
The Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) Foundation awards scholarships paired with paid summer internships at steel companies to …
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
An intensive nine-week biomedical research internship for undergraduates entering their final year of study, based in Seattle. Interns compl…
Scripps Research
A ten-week summer research internship at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, placing undergraduates in one of the institute's laborato…
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
An eight-week full-time research internship at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, where undergraduates work under a …
Van Andel Institute
A ten-week paid summer internship in basic biomedical research at the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, exploring disease at th…
Apprenti is a nationally recognized, U.S. Department of Labor-registered tech apprenticeship program that places candidates into roles such …
Multiverse delivers employer-based apprenticeships in software engineering, data, and AI, where apprentices learn on the job in a real busin…
The Homeland Security Professional Opportunities for Student Workforce to Experience Research (HS-POWER) program, sponsored by the DHS Scien…
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
A paid summer internship at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source, where undergraduates work with staff scientists on X-ray free-electron laser…
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
A paid summer research internship at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory placing undergraduates on fusion-energy and plasma-science proj…
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
A paid internship at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory focused on the operational, technical, and engineering-support side of running a na…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A 12-week paid summer internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in data science,…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A paid summer internship at LLNL's National Ignition Facility and Photon Science directorate, placing undergraduate and graduate students on…
Argonne National Laboratory
A paid Argonne National Laboratory program that helps undergraduates from a range of backgrounds transition into hands-on research internshi…
National Institute of Standards and Technology
A NIST fellowship providing graduate and doctoral students full graduate-school tuition, a stipend, and paid internship experience conductin…
UK Research and Innovation
A funded three-month internship placing UKRI-funded doctoral students with UK government and parliamentary host organisations to gain scienc…
A paid summer internship at Hudson River Trading for second-year undergraduates that rotates participants through the Algorithm Development …
A paid trading internship at the market-making firm Optiver, offering hands-on training in options theory and live-market simulation for stu…
University of Washington
A nine-week paid summer internship through the UW Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies, placing undergraduates wi…
AnitaB.org
A paid, hands-on apprenticeship from AnitaB.org helping people from underrepresented groups enter tech careers, with a high full-time employ…
Cyber Skyline / National Cyber League
Puzzle-based, capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition and learning community for high school, college and bootcamp students to build and …
Boston University
Six-week summer program for rising high school seniors to conduct university laboratory research (Internship track) or structured group rese…
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Paid research internships and NSF REU site (since 2001) in environmental chemistry, marine and estuarine ecology, molecular ecology and terr…
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mentored research internships across technical and scientific fields (physics, computing, engineering and more) at Los Alamos National Labor…
The Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) offers numerous scholarships for students in the pulp, paper, packaging, an…
ASEV annually awards scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in enology, viticulture, or a science basic to the…
The Non-Ferrous Founders' Society awards the $2,500 Mary & Louis Iannettoni Memorial Scholarship to undergraduate students pursuing educatio…
University of Connecticut
An NSF-funded summer research internship at the University of Connecticut's Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, giving undergraduates…
Virginia Institute of Marine Science (William & Mary)
A paid summer research internship in coastal and marine science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
Statewide California Earthquake Center
An undergraduate internship program in earthquake science coordinated by the Statewide California Earthquake Center.
EarthScope Consortium
A multi-year internship in solid-earth geoscience research for undergraduates, run by the EarthScope Consortium.
A program connecting undergraduate women and underrepresented students to computing and AI coursework, skills, and industry experience.
A community and career program supporting undergraduate and early-career women in tech through mentorship, events, and internships.
The American Dairy Science Association awards a stipend and plaque to a distinguished dairy-science undergraduate demonstrating leadership, …
The SCTE Foundation provides scholarships and grants to students pursuing engineering and software-development careers in the broadband conn…
Nonprofit providing high schoolers from underserved communities with technical skills training and paid corporate internships in tech and bu…
The National Precast Concrete Association Foundation awards scholarships to students enrolled in civil engineering, architectural, construct…
The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering Foundation provides tuition scholarships to university and college students pursuin…
The Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation awards up to 18 scholarships annually (including the Charles W. Finkl, Al Underys M…
The AGMA Foundation (now the Motion + Power Manufacturers Alliance Foundation) awards scholarships to engineering students pursuing careers …
TÜBİTAK's BİDEB 2232 program (with companion 2232-B for early-stage researchers) funds highly qualified scientists to establish research in …
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
A ten-week summer laboratory internship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City for undergraduates interested in biomedic…
Free Texas-based nonprofit helping underrepresented and low-income high school students build technical skills through after-school coding s…
Funding and support for people already in STEM careers — to advance, transition, or re-skill at any career stage.
A summer research program matching undergraduate women and underrepresented students with faculty mentors at research universities across th…
Grants of up to $8,000 for women who hold a bachelor's degree and are preparing to advance, change careers, or re-enter the workforce in STE…
A UK professional membership society founded in 1919 that supports women in engineering through its MentorSET cross-sector mentoring scheme,…
Fellowships for women scientists from Science and Technology-Lagging Countries (STLCs) to pursue PhD or early-career research in natural sci…
California Institute of Technology
A 10-week summer research program at Caltech for undergraduate students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM, including women, …
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A highly selective, free six-week residential STEM program at MIT for rising high school seniors from underrepresented backgrounds, includin…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A free two-week residential summer mathematics program at MIT for high-achieving high school students from underrepresented backgrounds, inc…
Carnegie Mellon University
A 12-week summer research program at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute for outstanding undergraduate students from around the world to co…
AnitaB.org
Scholarships awarded by AnitaB.org providing complimentary registration, travel, and hotel support for women and gender-minority students to…
Iota Sigma Pi
A $2,000 scholarship awarded annually by Iota Sigma Pi, the national honor society for women in chemistry, to an undergraduate woman or non-…
Association of Women in the Metal Industries
Scholarships and professional development awards from the Association of Women in the Metal Industries supporting AWMI members pursuing educ…
CRA-WP (Computing Research Association Widening Participation)
Ten-week funded summer research placement pairing undergraduates with faculty mentors at computing departments across the U.S., with a $9,00…
NVIDIA
Up to $60,000 for PhD students doing outstanding research in computing, AI, graphics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. Now in its 25…
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Supports PhD students from underrepresented backgrounds — including women — in the life sciences with up to 3 years of stipend support and p…
Rotating (MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, Georgia Tech)
Intensive two-day annual workshop for women graduate students and postdocs pursuing academic careers in EECS. Hosted at rotating top institu…
Ford Foundation / National Academies
Administered by the National Academies, Ford Foundation Fellowships increase faculty diversity by supporting predoctoral, dissertation, and …
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute supports undergraduate research through institutional grants to universities, enabling students to parti…
An undergraduate summer research program in science and biotechnology funded by the Amgen Foundation, placing students in hands-on laborator…
A summer research program from The Leadership Alliance consortium that matches undergraduates with faculty mentors at member research univer…
A 15-month mentored undergraduate research experience in chemistry, biological sciences, and interdisciplinary combinations, funded by the A…
Udall Foundation
A federally funded scholarship recognizing college sophomores and juniors committed to careers related to the environment, Tribal public pol…
Boston University
A six-week residential summer program at Boston University encouraging strongly motivated high school students (ages 14-18) to explore mathe…
Rutgers University
An eight-week summer Research Experience for Undergraduates run by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIM…
SLMath (formerly MSRI)
A six-week summer mathematics research program at SLMath (formerly MSRI) in Berkeley for undergraduates who have completed two years of univ…
The flagship international exchange program of the U.S. Department of State, offering Study/Research and English Teaching Assistant awards i…
The American Nuclear Society awards scholarships to undergraduate students preparing for careers in nuclear science, nuclear engineering, or…
University of Washington
A 10-week NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Washington in Seattle, offering hands-on research in Quantu…
The American Society of Civil Engineers administers a range of national scholarships for undergraduate civil engineering students, including…
Stanford University
An eight-week summer program in which high school juniors and seniors perform hands-on biomedical research with Stanford faculty across disc…
Stony Brook University
A highly selective summer program in which academically talented high school juniors conduct hands-on research in science, math, or engineer…
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
An eight-week summer research program run by SIAM and funded by the Simons Foundation, establishing five sites across the United States each…
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
A two-year fellowship for early-career, tenure-track but untenured faculty at U.S. and Canadian institutions in chemistry, computer science,…
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
An award bridging advanced postdoctoral training and the first years of faculty appointment for researchers applying quantitative and physic…
California Institute of Technology
A ten-week summer research program, running since 1979, in which undergraduates conduct a mentored research project with a Caltech or JPL fa…
Princeton University
An NSF MRSEC-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates in materials science at Princeton, where students work on a mentored research pro…
University of California
A two-year University of California system program preparing upper-division STEM undergraduates for doctoral study. Scholars complete two su…
The Searle Scholars Program funds the independent research of exceptional early-career faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry who …
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation's Beckman Young Investigator Program funds early-career faculty in the chemical and life sciences wh…
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Student Traineeship Award introduces students to CF research by funding a mentored research project of ten we…
Administered by ORISE, this program provides students, recent graduates, and university faculty with mentored research appointments at the C…
University of Michigan (Rackham Graduate School)
A funded summer research program at the University of Michigan pairing undergraduates with faculty mentors across STEM and other disciplines…
Purdue University
A paid summer research fellowship at Purdue University placing undergraduates on engineering and applied-science research projects with facu…
Australian Research Council
An Australian Research Council scheme providing three years of salary and project funding to outstanding early-career researchers across sci…
Indiana University Bloomington
An NSF-funded summer mathematics REU at Indiana University Bloomington where undergraduates work on research projects under faculty mentorsh…
Rice University
Eight-week NSF-funded summer REU at Rice University applying psychological science to real-world problems, with faculty-mentored research an…
West Virginia University
Nine-week NSF REU in the WVU Department of Psychology with a stipend plus lodging, food and travel, conducting behavioral-science research w…
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Postdoctoral Fellow award for researchers with under three years of postdoctoral training pursuing basic or translational research in blood …
University of North Texas
A 10-week NSF-funded summer REU offering interdisciplinary research across analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry, with on-c…
LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans
A 10-week NSF REU providing one-on-one faculty-mentored research across genomics, neuroscience, genetics, molecular biology, and related bas…
University of Michigan
A 10-week NSF-funded chemistry REU (running since 1989) offering research and professional development, with a stipend, housing, and travel …
Three-year postdoctoral fellowships in the UK for researchers within four years of their doctorate, open to any subject area including the s…
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Two-year awards of up to $70,000 for young scientists conducting neurobiological research relevant to serious brain and behavior disorders s…
IBM Research
A long-running fellowship recognizing exceptional PhD students in the final years of study working in IBM's focus areas of technology. Nomin…
Melanoma Research Alliance
Supports early-career researchers within five years of their first academic faculty appointment pursuing bold new ideas in melanoma research…
Northwestern University
A nine-week NSF-funded summer research experience through Northwestern's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, placing undergra…
The American Society of Hematology's Scholar Award provides career-development funding to fellows and junior faculty pursuing research caree…
Career Development Award from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network supporting junior faculty establishing independent pancreatic cancer rese…
Career Development Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness supporting junior clinician-scientists researching inherited retinal degener…
Supports early-career high school mathematics and science teachers with multi-year funding, professional development, and a national network…
A Simons Foundation award helping early-career autism researchers transition to independent faculty positions.
An award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement supporting early-career faculty in chemistry, physics, and astronomy who inte…
A program funding postdoctoral scholars and faculty in STEM fields to conduct research at leading Israeli universities.
A Research to Prevent Blindness award supporting early-career clinician-scientists conducting vision and eye-disease research.
A national community supporting Black and Latinx computing students with career development, mentorship, and technical resources.
GSA DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics is a biology scholarship or research award providing funding to graduate st…
HDSA Berman-Topper Family HD Career Development Fellowship is a biomedical research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers…
The Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals awards scholarships supporting flight training and aerospace career development for aspiri…
University of Iowa
A summer undergraduate research program at the University of Iowa offering mentored biomedical research and professional development for asp…
The Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award supports early-career investigators conducting pediatric medical research.
The National Psoriasis Foundation funds early-career research grants advancing understanding and treatment of psoriatic disease.
The American Society for Nutrition and ASN Foundation offer scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students in nutrition science, plus a…
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
An 8-12 week summer fellowship placing undergraduates in molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience faculty labs, culmin…
Rice University
A summer research fellowship supporting Rice undergraduates in supervised faculty research with a stipend, prioritizing first-generation and…
University of Minnesota
A summer NSF REU in human-centered computing where undergraduates conduct computer science research with faculty mentors on the Minneapolis …
UMass Chan Medical School
A summer research program giving undergraduates hands-on biomedical laboratory experience with graduate school faculty mentors in Worcester,…
Texas A&M University
A 10-week immersive biomedical research experience pairing Texas A&M undergraduates with faculty mentors, seminars, and a Research Day prese…
Purdue University
A 10-week NSF REU placing undergraduates in plant biology and big-data-driven research with professional development and a research symposiu…
The Lustgarten Foundation, the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research, supports early-career investigators through Career Deve…
The Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance funds junior faculty for three years to build independent careers in ovarian and gynecologic cancer res…
The India Alliance Early Career Fellowship is a mentored biomedical research fellowship supporting recently qualified researchers to establi…
A mentored award providing multi-year support to researchers within five years of their first faculty appointment pursuing early detection o…
King’s College London
A £3,000-per-year undergraduate scholarship (up to three years) for female, non-binary, and trans students in the Faculty of Natural, Mathem…
A multi-year grant supporting early-career tenure-track faculty conducting laboratory-based fundamental or translational cancer research.
A five-year grant (up to DKK 9 million) from Denmark's Villum Fonden enabling junior faculty in technical and natural sciences to establish …
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Faculty-mentored summer research fellowship (~60 awards) for UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduates across disciplines.
University of Michigan Medical School
12-week fellowship in physiology and biomedical research for University of Michigan undergraduates working with MIP faculty.
The CHEST Foundation, philanthropic arm of the American College of Chest Physicians, awards annual clinical research grants and young invest…
The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation's Career Development Grant supports early-career investigators in musculoskeletal and orth…
India's Department of Science and Technology runs the INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship to retain early-career PhD holders and support their transi…
The Cooley's Anemia Foundation invites national and international clinical and basic-science investigators (postdoctoral fellows or junior f…
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
A research-intensive ten-week summer program (June 1 to August 7, 2026) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for undergraduate and…
Yale University
The Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) summer program supports Yale undergraduates from underrepresented or under-resourced b…
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
A competitive summer fellowship (approximately June through early August) at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, UT Health…
Dartmouth College (Geisel School of Medicine / NH-INBRE)
An approximately eight-week summer research fellowship supported by New Hampshire INBRE at Dartmouth for undergraduates seeking skills for r…
Marquette University
A ten-week, full-time summer research training program in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette University for undergraduates interest…
Washington State University Vancouver
A ten-week NSF-funded REU (June 8 to August 14, 2026) hosted jointly by WSU Vancouver's School of Engineering and Computer Science and Unive…
The highest-growth STEM careers are software engineering, data science, biomedical research, environmental science, and cybersecurity — all fields with strong demand and increasing representation. Computer science and engineering have the most structured entry programs (bootcamps, apprenticeships, internships) for new entrants and career-changers. Biology and biomedical fields already have near-equal gender representation at the PhD level.
Returnship programs are the fastest path back. Path Forward has returnship programs at 100+ companies. Microsoft LEAP is a 16-week paid apprenticeship for people returning to tech. JPMorgan Chase ReEntry is an 8-week paid program. The NIH Re-Entry Supplements fund researchers returning to biomedical science. The Daphne Jackson Fellowship (UK) supports STEM professionals returning after a 2+ year break. There are 24 verified re-entry programs in the WIGSAT directory.
Top STEM industry internship programs: Google STEP Internship (first- and second-year CS students, paid), Brooke Owens Fellowship (aerospace, paid + mentorship), DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (10-week paid research at national labs), and Caltech WAVE Fellows (undergraduate research). Microsoft and Palantir also run structured internship pipelines.
Yes. AAUW Career Development Grants ($2,000–$12,000) support women pursuing education for career advancement. The Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship funds women from developing countries in STEM PhDs. L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science provides €15,000–€25,000 for postdoctoral researchers. AWIS Grants support women at every career stage.
A returnship is a structured, paid re-entry program for professionals returning to work after a career break — typically 8–16 weeks, with mentorship and a path to a full-time offer. They're designed to address the resume gap that disproportionately affects professionals who took time for caregiving. Major employers (Microsoft, JPMorgan, Amazon, national labs) run returnship programs with rolling or annual application cycles.