Grant, Professional Development and Employment
Professional Development, Grants and Employment Opportunities
Graduate Student Professional Development
The Department has funds to help graduate students offset the cost of professional development to national or international meetings at which they are presenting their work as either a platform talk or a poster.
Awards of up to $500 are available
Students must be presenting work at the meeting to qualify for a Graduate Student Professional Development award
Students are eligible to receive a Graduate Student Professional Development award once per academic year
Students should submit a request to the Graduate Program Director at least six weeks prior to the meeting to the Graduate Program Director. The request form should be completed in its entirety and signed by both the student and the Graduate Program Director. The request must be accompanied by the conference abstract and letter of acceptance from the conference.
University Awards
Professional Development Award
The Professional Development Award of up to $500* also is available through the Office of Graduate Studies. The deadline for application for a travel award is one month prior to the time of travel.
*The University Travel Award requires matching funds from some other source, and this requirement is satisfied by the Department's Travel Award.
Support for Collection-Based Research
Support for Collection-Based Research is available from the Office of Graduate and Professional Education and the Center for Material Culture Studies. Graduate students must travel to historic sites and museums to study collections and to utilize library and archival holdings for dissertation and thesis research and data collection in material culture studies and other disciplines. This matching competitive grant program will provide funding of up to $300 to graduate students at the doctoral and master's level to support short-term collection-based research travel. A student may apply for funding only once each fiscal year (July 1 - June 30).
Employment Opportunities
As a service to our students and alumni, all biological sciences-related job advertisements that we receive are posted here.
Opportunities in the Department of Biological Sciences
Currently, there are no openings in the department.
