Financial Information
Nearly all students enrolled in the Ph.D.
program will receive generous financial support
from the Department of Chemistry and the
Graduate School including:
- A highly competitive and generous stipend ($24,500 for the twelve-month 2008-2009 academic year)
- Complete full-time tuition coverage (valued at $29,300 for the 2008-2009 academic year) and
- Comprehensive individual
medical insurance.
As an assistantship recipient, you will
gain significant experience in teaching by
leading undergraduate laboratory or recitation
sections. This is an invaluable opportunity
for those seeking to pursue an academic career
after graduation, as do a third of our graduates.
Most of our students serve as teaching assistants
for approximately two years, and are supported
financially as research assistants by their
mentors in subsequent years.
Details of other departmental and university
awards are listed below and may also be found
on the Graduate School’s website.
Espenscheid
Fellowship
To demonstrate the importance of the qualifying
examinations, the Department of Chemistry
offers an Espenscheid Fellowship to all students
who (a) have not been enrolled previously
in a graduate degree program in chemistry
and (b) reach “excusing level” on
four qualifying exams taken in the first
attempt. The Espenscheid Fellowship serves
as a supplement to the student’s stipend.
Espenscheid Fellows are not required to teach
during the summer after their first year,
thereby affording them more time to conduct
research.
Georgetown University Fellowship
Georgetown University Fellowships are highly-competitive
and prestigious awards offered to the most
outstanding applicants to doctoral programs
in the Graduate School. University Fellows
receive a supplemental stipend plus full
tuition support for up to five years, assuming
satisfactory progress toward the Ph.D. University
Fellows are required to provide service to
the Department, either as research or teaching
assistants, for a total of three years, and
the Department decides which years of the
fellowship will be used for Department service.
Fellows, as all other students receiving
financial aid, are reviewed annually.
The University Fellowship is offered to
a limited number of newly-admitted Ph.D.
students each year. On the basis of departmental
nominations, a Graduate School Fellowship
Committee will recommend the awardees to
the Dean of the Graduate School.
Because departmental nominations are due
in early to mid-March, only applicants whose
applications are complete by 1 March will
be considered for departmental nomination.
Patrick Healy Graduate Fellowship
The Patrick Healy Graduate Fellowship is
a competitive award designed to attract and
support the most talented students from those
groups least represented in the professoriate.
Named in honor of Georgetown’s 28th
president, the first African-American president
of an American university, the Fellowship’s
goal is to increase the cultural, ethnic,
and economic diversity of persons being prepared
for careers as college and university professors.
Support will be provided to Patrick Healy Fellows for twelve months per
year for up to five years, assuming satisfactory progress toward the Ph.D.
The Patrick Healy Fellowship is offered to one Fall semester matriculant
each year. On the basis of departmental nominations, a Graduate School Fellowship
Committee will recommend the awardee to the Dean of the Graduate School.
To be eligible for the Patrick Healy Graduate Fellowship, a departmental
nominee must be a U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident who is a member of those
groups under-represented in the professoriate (e.g. African-Americans, Native
Americans, etc.).
Because departmental nominations are due
in early to mid-March, only applicants whose
applications are complete by 1 March will
be considered for departmental nomination.
CONACyT Fellowship
Georgetown University has an exciting partnership
between its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
and El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
(CONACyT) in the area of doctoral education.
Each year Georgetown University accepts up
to forty Mexican CONACyT fellows within its
doctoral programs in the sciences and social
sciences. Fellows who continue to meet academic
qualifications will receive up to five years
of support. This opportunity is open to applicants
with Mexican citizenship. For more information,
please refer to the following website: http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/1conacyt.cfm.
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