Funding

AMSC students are funded from a variety of sources. Students seeking funding should mark on their application that they are seeking funding.

MATH Teaching Assistantships and Fellowships

Many AMSC PhD students receive a stipend and full tuition waiver through MATH Department Teaching Assistantships and/or Fellowships.

• MATH Financial Resources and Information for Graduate Assistants (external link)
• Maintaining MATH Teaching Assistantships (internal page)

MS applicants are not eligible for MATH Department funding.

Outside Funding Opportunities

• UMD MathQuantum Fellowship (external link)
• Computational Turbulence Laboratory Funding Flyer (PDF)
• Graduate Students/Postdoctoral Fellowships (science.gov, external link)
• National Science Foundation Funding Opportunities (external link)
• National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship Opportunities (external link)
• Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (external link)
• National Cancer Institute Graduate Funding (external link)
• National Institutes of Health Graduate Funding Opportunities (external link)
• NIST Funding Opportunities (external link)

NASA Graduate Student Fellowships

Since 2002, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) has offered a graduate student recruitment and fellowship program sponsored by the Earth-Sun Exploration Division at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Each year, NASA funds an assistantship in Computational Earth Science within the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM).

Typically, students work on computational projects involving Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling. After the first year, the student's assistantship cost is split 50-50 between the university's Major Professor and a GSFC scientist serving as thesis co-advisor. The graduate student is expected to work on problems of relevance to NASA/GSFC and do a portion of the thesis research at Goddard.