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Fellowship Information
- Most UW fellowships go to postdocs or advanced PhD students, but it is worthwhile for all prospective students to check out fellowships that are available. Many fellowships have deadlines before the application deadline, but not all.
- FELLOWSHIPS FOR U.S. POSTDOCTORAL STUDENTS
- Many of our students who are US-licensed clinicians and othe postdocs receive fellowships from the UW Medical Center or related teaching hospitals.
- Deadlines for these fellowship are usually much earlier than our application deadline.
- Eligible applicants should contact appropriate faculty in the School of Medicine/UWMC or Dentistry, as appropriate.
- UW Residencies & Clinical Fellowships: includes Harborview Medical Center, Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center and VA Puget Sound Health Care Systems.
- School of Dentistry
- PRE- AND POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ASSOCIATED WITH UW EPIDEMIOLOGY
- See Fellowships Open to Epidemiology Students and Postdocs
- The School of Public Health currently has, or is associated with, pre- and/or post-doctoral fellowships in the following areas:
- Biobehavioral Cancer Research
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology
- Oral Health
- Health Services Research (Postdoc only)
- Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences
- Maternal Child Health (for MCH MPH program only)
- Reproductive Epidemiology
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (for postdocs & advanced PhD students only)
- Pre-doctoral students receive approximately $1730/month (less for MCH Training), a waiver of the non-resident portion of tuition, partial resident tuition support (~60%) and health insurance.
- In addition, most trainees are able to find a 10 hr/wk RA to pay for most of the remainder of tuition. The student pays approximately $240/quarter in student fees.
- Postdoctoral Fellows receive a higher salary and the faculty/staff health insurance. See Faculty/Staff Partial Tuition Exemption below.
- FELLOWSHIP SEARCH SERVICES AND LISTINGS
- Create a list of key words about your areas of interest, professional goals, work & educational background and personal attributes to use in searching databases.
- Fellowship & Assistantship Division of the UW Graduate School:
- How to Find Outside Funding
- Funding Sources on the Internet
- Calendar of some fellowships through UW
- The UW Health Sciences Library has links to funding sources. Some of these databases are open to UW students, faculty and staff only. Non-postdocs, visit the website and select “Student” from “Toolkits” in the top menu bar.
- The UW Health Sciences Library also offers classes on grant writing and how to search funding databases (aimed at UW faculty, postdoc fellows and staff; sometimes open to students).
- Health Sciences Research Funding Service
- Subscribe to the Research Funding Service Funding Bulletin
- You may access restricted databases, as soon as you pay your tuition deposit ($100) and receive your enrollment "Personal Access Code" (PAC) and Student Number. Set up a UW NetID, follow the directions to connect to UW.
- Community of Science provides fellowship/grant search service under "Funding Opportunities".
- Fellowships for Minority Students
- Outside Fellowships for Minority Students
- Minority students selected for the few UW Diversity Fellowships and RAs are notified by the Department or the UW Graduate School. It is not possible to apply individually for UW diversity awards.
- Humanities/Social Science Non-UW Fellowships
- Fastweb is a computerized email notification service based on your profile. It is particularly good for smaller scholarships.
Types of Funding Available
How to Select and Contact Faculty to Look for a Research Assistant (RA) Position
Benefits Information for RAs and TAs at the UW
International Students
Accepting a Funding Offer
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Updated 02/26/08