Funding Sources
Updated Fall 2025
Internal Funding
Assistantships
The ÃÛÌÒTVoffers three main types of assistantships: Teaching Assistantships, Research Assistantships, and Engagement Assistantships. These positions are paid, compensated through a stipend or tuition waiver, and involve working with faculty in either a teaching or research capacity, or an engagement role.
RAships most commonly involve assisting faculty on research projects. They receive a stipend, graduate student health insurance, tuition support, and in some cases may also include payment of fees. RAships are often grant-funded, where your advisor or possibly a committee member is the Principal Investigator. Given this, RAships may be subject to additional requirements for eligibility and may vary greatly depending on the type of funding, program, project, etc.
Most TAship appointments require up to 20 hours per week & include a stipend, health insurance, and tuition support. TAships may involve:
- Teaching courses
- Leading Discussion Sections
- Supervising labs
- Meeting with students
Engagement assistants often receive a stipend, graduate student health insurance, and tuition support. EAships are paired with a service unit whose campus role is closely related to a student’s academic area of interest. Engagement assistants most often provide administrative aid to faculty and staff members, including but not limited to:
- Academic assignments
- Library services
- Athletic services
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Fellowships
Scholarships
Travel Grants
External Funding
- The Alaska Sea Grant offers as well as !
- The (NSF GRFP) recognizes and supports individuals early in their graduate training in
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
- The is a full-time, hands-on training and educational program that provides early career
individuals with the opportunity to spend 12 weeks at the in Washington, DC learning about science and technology policy and the role that
scientists and engineers play in advising the nation.
- : the NASA Fellowship Activity is designed to support NASA STEM Engagement objectives
and to provide academic institutions the ability to enhance graduate-level learning
and development.
- offers research grants in a variety of subjects.
The Cosmos Scholars Prize awards recipients for their rigorous research. The winners will attend a special event in their honor, held at the Cosmos Club, where they will speak in their fields of expertise.
Prize Categories Include:
- Arts and Humanities
- Biological/Biomedical Research
- Computer Science and Mathematics
- Physical Sciences
- Social Science and Economics
- : AAUW advances educational and professional opportunities for women in the United
States and around the globe.
- : available for graduate students who participated in varsity sports as an undergraduate
at a NCAA member institution
- : This program supports basic scientific research about the nature, causes and/or
consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes
across a range of scales.
- is a cohort-based leadership program that promotes collaboration among outstanding early- and mid-career scientists, engineers, and medical professionals during a two-year term of service. The program aims to expand the variety of expertise engaged in the convening and advisory functions of the National Academies while building a network of emerging U.S. leaders to address national and global challenges.