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Assistantships and Fellowships |
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In addition to regular
TA positions, the department has a limited number of honorary
fellowships that provide full financial support without teaching
duties; and research assistantships that provide full support
in return for assisting a particular faculty with research. Fellowships
are awarded on the basis of merit, while the research assistantships
are awarded to students working in certain areas on the basis
of progress toward the PhD. Most PhD students can expect
some support (an average of two to three quarters) from one or
both of these sources during their graduate careers.
We expect that the
following fellowships will be awarded to math graduate students
in the next few years:
- ARCS Fellowships: cash
awards of $7,500 for the first year and $5,000 per year for years two and three, awarded by the
Seattle chapter of the ARCS
Foundation to an outstanding incoming student in addition
to a regular Teaching Assistantship.
- Microsoft Scholar Awards:
cash awards of $5000 per year for up to four years, offered
to outstanding incoming graduate students and funded through
a generous donation from Microsoft
Research.
- Top Scholar Awards:
cash stipends in addition to regular TA awards, funded by
the UW Graduate School and the Mathematics Department for
outstanding incoming students.
- McFarlan Fellowships: two-quarter
fellowships given to students who have demonstrated outstanding
achievement or potential in research, funded by a bequest
from Lee McFarlan, a former member of the department.
- GOP (Graduate Opportunity
Program) Fellowships: funded by the Graduate
Opportunity and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)
of the University of Washington.
In addition, students in recent years
have been supported as Research Assistants to faculty funded by
the following agencies, among others:
- US Department of Energy
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- University of Washington Graduate
School
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