Graduate Research Training
Graduate students gain valuable experience by working with faculty members and engaging in research. GW offers three major opportunities to provide students with essential training and skills.
Graduate Research Assistantships
Graduate Research Assistants perform part-time research assistance in their fields of study. Compensation, which is granted in a combination of salary and stipend, varies for these merit-based awards. Graduate Research Assistants typically also receive tuition awards of up to nine credits per semester.
Graduate Teaching Assistantships
Graduate Teaching Assistants perform part-time teaching duties in their fields of study. Compensation may be as much as $18,000. The awards consist of a combination of salary and stipend; assistants also receive tuition awards of up to nine credit hours per semester.
Fellow Awards
GW provides many fellowships and scholarships, which offer stipends and/or tuition awards based on academic achievement, to fund master’s and doctoral study. Most fellowships and scholarships are offered through the academic departments and some are offered through the Office of Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships. A number of outside fellowships are also available.
Outside awards are sponsored by foundations, professional and learned societies, industries, and other organizations. Contact the Office of Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships for information about outside funding resources.
The GW Experience
Students
GW student entrepreneurs may apply for spots in entrepreneurship incubator.
A Home Away from HomeTwins study medicine and public health at George Washington.
Student Co-Produces New AlbumGeorge Washington student José Curbelo helped produce an album of northern Uruguayan music for Smithsonian Folkways.
A Call to ServiceGW students traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico as part of the fourth annual Alternative Winter Break program.
Faculty
GSPM professors teach practical skills to emerging politicians in Egypt.
South African Youth Perform at GWLatest collaboration between Professor of Theatre Leslie Jacobson and the Bokamoso Youth Centre premieres Friday.
A Life-Changing CourseToday’s reading by Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of “The Far Euphrates,” is the first of six from visiting artists in this spring’s Jewish Literature Live course.
Alumni
New scholarship program enables graduates to put a face and name to donations.
Fifteen alumni and one doctoral student will conduct research around the globe with 2011-12 Fulbrights.
Furry Friend Gets Kids Excited About LearningGeorge Washington alumna helped create a curriculum for elementary school students centered on the dog who used to serve as the postal service’s mascot.
