For specific Master's and Ph. D. Degree Opportunities please consult the bulletin boards in the Biology Department, main corridor. The resources listed below are only general resources.
Council for Undergraduate Research Graduate School Registry:
CUR's Registry of Undergraduate Researchers and Graduate Schools is designed to link undergraduate students who have research experience with graduate schools interested in recruiting such students.
The registry is free of charge to the student. Interested graduate schools contact CUR and pay to gain access to the student's records. These schools can then contact students whose records they are interested in.
Students are encouraged to register themselves at http://www.cur.org/ugreg/register.asp. Once they register, they will receive an email that provides them with a password and instructions on how to complete their records. (It is important to follow through and complete your record after you register.)
NSF offers a variety of funding opportunities (including fellowships) to support graduate work in the sciences.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
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Three year graduate fellowships in science, mathematics, and engineering are offered to approximately 900 graduate students each year. Applicants must be United States citizens or nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States. The fellowships are intended for individuals in the early stages of their graduate study in science, mathematics, or engineering. Individuals generally apply during the senior year of college, the first year of graduate school, and the beginning of the second year of graduate school.
Fellowships are awarded for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees in fiels supported by NSF, including the mathematical, physical, biological, behavioral and social sciences; engineering; the history of science and the philosophy of science; and for research-based PhD degrees in science education.
Stipends and Allowances for 2005 fellows included $21,500 stipend for twelve-month tenure; cost-of-education allowance of $10,500 per tenure year; and a one-time $1,000 International Research Travel Allowance.
For more information:
http://www.orau.org/nsf/nsffel.htm
E-mail: nsfgrfp@orau.gov
Telephone: (866) 353-0905 (toll-free number)
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
The Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students persuing a Ph.D. in scientific or engineering disciplines with an emphasis in high-performance computing. This program is open to US citizens and permanent resident aliens who are exceptional senior undergraduates or in the first or second year of graduate study.
Fellows for 2005 were provided a $28,000 yearly stipend; payment for all tuition fees; work assistance; yearly conferences; $1,000 yearly academic allowance; and research opportunity at a DOE laboratory. Applications are available online at https://www.krellinst.org/csgf/application.
For more information:
www.krellinst.org/csgf
E-mail: csgf@krellinst.org
Telephone: (515) 956-3696
Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities
Approximately 60 predoctoral, 35 dissertational, and 24 postdoctoral fellowships sponsered by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies. In order to be eligible you must be a U.S. citizen or national, Native American Indian, Mexican American/Chicana/Chicano, Alaska Native (Eskimo or Aleut), Native Pacific Islander (polynesian or Micronesian), Black/African Amrican. or Puerto Rican and planning a career in teaching and research at the college or university level.
Stipends and Allowances are (as of 2007-08):
Predoctoral - Annual stipend: $20,000, Award to the institution in lieu of tuition and fees: $2,000
Dissertational - $21,000 for one year
Postdoctoral - $40,000 for one year, $1,500 employing institution allowance, to be matched by employing institution.
All awardees have expenses paid to attend the Conference of Ford Fellows for three years.
For more information:
http://national-academies.org/fellowships
E-mail: infofell@nas.edu
Phone: (202) 334-2872