Teaching Assistants
Appointments as Teaching
Assistants (compensation taxable)
are normally available to all entering students.
Typically students work as TA's during the
academic year (20 hours per week) and are then
supported either as TA's or as Research Assistants
during the summer.
The stipend is $14,302 (academic
year) plus $3,698 (Summer RA/TA) for a total 2004
- 2005 stipend of $18,000
(taxable) for the calendar year. Full
tuition remission (10 credits each semester
plus 3 credits in the Summer session) is included
but students do have to pay fees of approximately
$400 each semester. State of Maryland health benefits
are available at the same discounted premium as
enjoyed by faculty and staff. Teaching assistants are normally
awarded for 2 years subject to satisfactory
progress. Normally students transfer to
support as a research assistant within this 2 year
period.
Fellowships
A small number of Departmental
Fellowships are available.
Details are not yet finalized. In 2003 - 2004
fellowships were awarded for a period of two academic
years and included tuition remission of
up to 12 credits for each semester plus 3 credits
in the summer.
Fellowship offers
consisted of a fellowship stipend of $12,131 for the academic year.
In addition, all Fellows were offered a
supplementary half-time Teaching Assistantship or
Research Assistantship for the academic year, with
an additional stipend of $7,151.
Finally, all fellows were guaranteed summer
support paying
$3,698
for the summer period and including up to 3
credits of tuition remission. Thus our combined
Fellowship financial package totals $22,980 per
year.
In
addition:-
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Also
of interest ....
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GRADUATE
RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR WOMEN
The Graduate Research Program for Women,
sponsored by Lucent Technologies and Bell
Laboratories, provides both graduate
fellowships and mentoring to women
studying physics and a variety of other
disciplines. College seniors and
first-year grad students are eligible to
apply. Click here
for more details.
This program also provides the opportunity
to work at Bell Labs or at other Lucent
research facilities during the summer
months.
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