Graduate Funding
All enrolled Ph.D. students receive support in the form of a stipend, tuition and health insurance. It is not necessary to apply to individual faculty for departmental research and teaching assistantships.
All eligible first and second year students should apply for an National Science Foundation Fellowship. A list of additional fellowships to which Ph.D. students are eligible are listed below.
National Opportunities
- American Psychological Association
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association
- Department of Energy
- Ford Foundation
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Graduate Research Environmental Fellowships (GREF)
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM)
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG)
- National Heart and Lung Blood Institute Predoctoral Fellowship for Minority Students
- National Institutes of Health: National Research Service Award (NIH-NRSA)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (DDIG)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Neuroscience Scholars Fellowship Program
- Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART)
- UNCF/Merck Science Initiative
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security