Assistantships and Funding Sources for QSP students

Assistantships

• There are two state-funded assistantships available to QSP students every year.

General Funding Sources (Scholarships, Fellowships,Waivers, etc.)

• National Science Foundation NSF Fellowships.
• National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships in the Physical Sciences for minorities and women.
• Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Fellowship Program.
• American Society of Mammalogists Grants-in-aid.
• Albert R. and Alma Shadle Fellowship in Mammalogy.

Research and Travel Funding (for thesis and other research projects)

• GSA Research Grants
• Paleontological Society
• Sigma Xi
• Explorers Club
• Archaeological Geology

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