About Us
The Science and Engineering Alliance, Inc. (SEA), was founded in 1990 as a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt consortia, to serve four state-supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and a national laboratory. It serves as a “one-stop” operation that provides its members with technical marketing and community relations, develops training and experiential programs for students, develops technical partnerships with the public and private sectors and identifies opportunities for access and participation in high-profile research. SEA focuses on educating the public and private sector on the importance of broadening participation to include members from all ethnic and gender groups if a strong American technical workforce is to be ensured. Two world-class national laboratories augment the efforts of SEA by providing a variety of resources and technical support in the form of serving as a “use facility” for faculty and student development.
Understanding that the "sum is greater than the individual parts," SEA is able to use the combined strengths of its members as a "virtual university" to meet the research and development needs of the public and private sectors to:
Initiate new research projects that will foster collaboration among the member institutions, and strengthen faculty and student development.
Create new partnerships that build on the existing technical capabilities of the member institutions as a basis to improve research.
Establish new faculty and student internships and coops, and strengthen existing ones.
Prepare existing and prospective K-12 teachers to teach science and mathematics more effectively.
Press Releases
July 1, 2010
SEA Receives Funding to Continue Development of the NEON Satellite Site (NSS) Toolbox Program
June 24, 2009
Mechanics of Competitive Research Grant Proposal Development Workshops for Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs)
June 15, 2009
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) Partners with SEA
October 1, 2008
SEA Receives Funding to Continue its Efforts of Involving Minority-Serving
Institutions (MSIs) in the NEON Initiative
February 23, 2008
SEA to Assess the Involvement of Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs) and Other Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) in
Wildlife Science, Fisheries and Conservation Biology
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