.: Genetics Support :.

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Financial Support & Fellowship Opportunities

One of the most common oversights of incoming graduate students is the knowledge of available funding. As a graduate student, you compete in a market of universities to find the best deal for your education. Like potential employers, departments may offer you fellowship incentives specific to their programs. Particular research faculty may also provide salaries in the form of graduate assistantships or research stipends for specific research projects. These fellowships may be through the university, a granting agency such as a NIH training grant, or private institutions which endow research, as well as graduate stipends such as the Pew Charitable Trust. Alternatively, you may apply to any of a large number of funding agencies such as NSF, USDA, and NIH for fellowships that can be used wherever you decide to attend graduate school. It is your obligation to determine what is available in your area of research interests and what will best suit your needs to participate in a graduate program. Having a fellowship from one granting agency does not preclude you from obtaining another, as many may be deferred.

The August 2009 issue of PLoS Genetics features a cover image illustrating the article by Genetics faculty members Ravi Palanivelu and David Mount.

Felicia Goodrum was the only professor in Arizona honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Goodrum, who works in the departments of immunobiology and molecular and cellular biology and is a member of the Genetics GIDP faculty, BIO5 Institute and Arizona Cancer Center, studies the human cytomegalovirus, or HGMV.

Applications to the Genetics program are reviewed by an Admissions Committee. The Program normally guarantees financial support (an annual stipend, plus payment of registration, tuition and student health insurance) to successful Ph.D. applicants for five years following their admission. Ph.D. students should complete their studies within four to six years. Typically the first year of a student’s education is supported by Program funds or program-arranged funding. Students have until the end of their second semester to identify a faculty mentor under whom to perform their doctoral research, with the assumption that the faculty member will supply/arrange funding for the remainder of the student’s career.

UA Graduate College Financial Assistance

The University of Arizona Minority Health Disparities Research Opportunities (NIH/IMSD funded)

Opportunities in Genomics!

Students in the program can pursue a Ph.D. in Genetics with a specialization in Genomics. They can be supported by fellowships offered by the Genetics Program or by The University of Arizona's new Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program Grant for predoctoral study in genomics; see the Genomics IGERT website.

There are additional fellowship/scholarship opportunities available for specific purposes such as travel to scientific conferences, which will be announced to students via email as they are advertised.