Biomedical Sciences PhD students may be awarded financial support in the form of an assistantship. This fall into two categories:
Graduate assistants (GRA, GRA/GTA) are enrolled students whose primary role at Augusta University is toward PhD degree completion. The assistantship position is intended to offset expenses while a student is enrolled, but is not ever to become the student’s primary role at Augusta University. Students receiving one of these assistantships may not hold additional employment positions unless approval from The Graduate School is granted. Selected students will receive GRA funding for the duration of the PhD program pending budget availability and satisfactory academic progress.
GRA
Graduate Research Assistants are responsible for performing research-related activities under the supervision of The Graduate School and/or program research mentor. Individuals who apply and are accepted into the Biomedical Sciences, PhD program at AU are automatically considered and, if approved, awarded a Graduate Research Assistantship. There is no formal GRA application that needs to be completed for consideration.
Eligibility Requirements:
Incentives:
GRA / GTA
GRA/GTA’s are assigned responsibility for teaching duties that are related to his/her academic program under the direct supervision of a faculty member who is credentialed in the teaching discipline. GRA/GTAs are also responsible for maintaining duties in the research lab for the progression of their academic degree.
GRA/GTA Eligibility Requirements:
GRA/GTA Incentives:
Resolution Regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows, Trainees, and Assistants
“Acceptance of an offer of financial support* (such as a graduate scholarship, fellowship, traineeship, or assistantship) for the next academic year by a prospective or enrolled graduate student completes an agreement that both student and graduate school expect to honor. In that context, the conditions affecting such offers and their acceptance must be defined carefully and understood by all parties.”
“Students are under no obligation to respond to offers of financial support prior to April 15; earlier deadlines for acceptance of such offers violate the intent of this Resolution. In those instances in which a student accepts an offer before April 15, and subsequently desires to withdraw that acceptance, the student may submit in writing a resignation of the appointment at any time through April 15. However, an acceptance given or left in force after April 15 commits the student not to accept another offer without first obtaining a written release from the institution to which a commitment has been made. Similarly, an offer by an institution after April 15 is conditional on presentation by the student of the written release from any previously accepted offer.”
* This Resolution applies to offers of financial support only, not offers of admission.
Augusta University supports this resolution. The resolution and full list of members and institutions that support it can also be found on the CGS website.
Biomedical Sciences Program
Health Sciences Campus
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