Financial Support

Many graduate students in ESSM are supported by departmental teaching assistantships, grant-based research assistantships, or internal and external graduate fellowships and grants. Research and travel grants are also available from the department and university.

Franklin F. Wasko Graduate Merit Fellowship

> This award is intended as a dissertation fellowship for a current doctoral student in our department who is in the final stages of his/her degree. The deadline for nominations is April 5, 2013. Eligibility and application requirements

Other departmental assistantships & awards

  • Teaching assistantships (TA) • are available either as matching for graduate fellowships or allocated to individual faculty members through a rotation system. Contact your faculty advisor on availability of TA positions.
  • Research assistantships (RA) • are grant-based and an essential component of graduate student support. Contact your faculty advisor on availability of RA positions.
  • Gould Research Award • available to current graduate students studying plant systematics
  • Springfield Research Award • available to current graduate students in rangeland ecology and management or related fields
  • Sloan Minority PhD Fellowship • available to minority doctoral candidates through the Sloan Minority PhD Program in ESSM. Contact Dr. Tom Boutton, boutton@tamu.edu, for more information.
  • ESSM graduate travel grants • competitive travel grants (up to $600 each) offered twice a year to provide partial support for ESSM graduate students to present research at professional meetings

University & College graduate fellowships and grants

  • Graduate Merit Fellowships • These competitive fellowships are available to incoming masters or doctoral students. Your future advisor nominates you for the fellowship. You must have applied for graduate school at Texas A&M and provide some materials for the nomination package. Recipients are chosen by a university-wide selection committee. ESSM provides matching funds, in the form of a teaching or research assistantship. (See the Office of Graduate Studies Faculty-Nominated Fellowships page.)
  • Graduate Diversity Fellowships • These competitive fellowships are available to incoming masters or doctoral students. Your future advisor nominates you for the fellowship. You must have applied for graduate school at Texas A&M and provide some materials for the nomination package. Recipients are chosen by a university-wide selection committee. ESSM provides matching funds, in the form of a teaching or research assistantship. (See the Office of Graduate Studies Faculty-Nominated Fellowships page.)
  • Tom Slick Graduate Fellowships • The Tom Slick Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences provides financial support for students who conduct research relevant to the agriculture of Southwest Texas; the research must be conducted in the State of Texas. This competitive fellowship is awarded to outstanding doctoral students who have completed preliminary exams to support completion of their dissertation.
  • U.S. Senator Gramm Doctoral Fellowships • This competitive fellowship is available to currently enrolled doctoral students. Its purpose is to recognize outstanding teaching and research by doctoral students. Your advisor or another faculty member nominates you for this fellowship; you must provide some materials for the nomination package. Nominations are first routed through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; those selected by the college are then evaluated by a university-wide committee.
  • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Excellence Fellowships • This competitive Fellowship is available to incoming masters (thesis option only) and doctoral students. Your future advisor may nominate you for this fellowship once you are accepted for fall enrollment and have a half-time assistantship or fellowship arranged.

External fellowships and grants

Graduate fellowships from national and private agencies

Research funding opportunities

Postdoctoral fellowship opportunities

Program Information

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