IB: Funding & Financial Support

Funding & Financial Support

Financial Aid Overview

The Department of Integrative Biology makes every effort to ensure five years of financial support to all of its doctoral students.

The five years of support includes:

Intramural and extramural fellowships
Many students in IB hold multi-year fellowships from the National Science Foundation or the University.
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) positions
Most students teach in several courses during their graduate careers.
Graduate Student Research (GSR) positions
Research positions are generally available in faculty laboratories, the University Herbarium, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and the Museum of Paleontology. Curatorial work is an important component of the training program in systematic biology.

Other IB Support include:

After the five years of normative time, students making good progress remain eligible for support, but priority is given to junior students. In general, no post-normative time students making good progress have been denied the opportunity of support during the final months of their graduate careers.

Details of the various types of assistance is available on the support page.

Grants

Writing Proposals

Students are encouraged to write grant proposals and to develop them in conjunction with faculty members. Numerous sources of support exist within the Department and its associated research units. Consult our Grants Administrative page and List of Funding Sources for details.

The departmental policy is to give priority of research support to students who attempt to gain funds from other sources.

Student Research

Support for student research is generally excellent, largely because of the caliber of students and the ability of their research to attract funding from outside the University as well as from internal sources.