PhD Student Financial Support Print E-mail
  • The Vision Science Graduate Program will provide financial support (stipend, tuition and fees, hospital insurance coverage) for PhD students during their first year, unless students have access to funding from other sources.
  • The mentor is expected to provide this financial support once the student has joined the laboratory until the completion of the student’s degree.
  • Students who qualify are encouraged to submit applications for extramural pre-doctoral fellowships. In addition, students and their mentors are encouraged to apply for any fellowships that may be available through training grants or the Program.
  • If a student concludes that he or she is unable or unwilling to continue to train in a particular laboratory, or if a mentor is no longer willing to train a particular student, the mentor will be expected to continue to support the student until the student is able to identify another mentor. This period of continued support will last no more than 1 semester following written notification of the situation to the Program Manager. If, by the end of that semester, the student is unable to identify a mentor who is willing or able to mentor the student, the Director and the Advisory Committee will review the situation. In such cases, the Program may assume support for the student while the student continues to try to identify a new mentor. Alternatively, this situation may serve as cause for the loss of financial support.