Awards

Assistantships
CU-Boulder awards more than 2,000 teaching and research assistantships to graduate students through the major departments. Assistantships provide a stipend, tuition waiver, and partial health insurance waiver, as well as offering experience in university teaching or research. Students interested in teaching or research assistantships should contact the department in which they plan to enroll.

All full-time graduate students in good standing are eligible for these awards, regardless of financial need. The amount of the stipend for an assistantship depends on the number of hours worked, which varies up to one-half time

Travel Application (word doc)

The Graduate School offers partial funding for graduate students to present research findings at meetings or conferences outside Colorado. The Graduate School provides a travel grant of $300 for domestic conferences and $500 for international conferences. Funds will be applied directly to the student's tuition account. If the account balance is zero, a refund direct deposit will be disbursed by the Bursar's Office of Financial Aid. The grant is contingent on account funding by the Graduate School.

Eligibility Requirements: The applicant must be a full-time graduate student in good standing.

• The student must be traveling to a meeting or conference to present his/her own work or work on which he/she is the primary author.
• The student must be the sole presenter of the work.
• The student may receive funds from the Graduate School for travel only once per fiscal year (July 1 through June 30).
• A student receiving funding from an outside source (fellowship, stipend, scholarship, grant, departmental travel grant) is not eligible.
• Each department may submit 10 applications annually for consideration.

Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant
You will need the application/guidelines/tips in order to complete the application correctly. Please be sure to download all THREE forms.

Download the application page here
Graduate Student Grant Application (.pdf)
Graduate Student Grant Application (.doc)

Download the tips page here
Graduate Student Grant Tips(.pdf)
Graduate Student Grant Tips (.doc)

Download the guidelines page here
Graduate Student Grant Guidelines (.pdf)
Graduate Student Grant Guidelines (.doc)

John W. Marr Ecology Fund

Purpose: To provide grants of $300 to $1,000 for Ph.D. candidates doing field research in plant ecology in the Rocky Mountains or the Arctic and attending one of the specific universities listed below.

Biography of John W. Marr

Applications must include:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Research proposal of no more than 5 pages which includes: scientific goals, methods to be used, timetable and selected current literature citations
• Itemized budget including the use of Marr fund and other potential sources of funding
• Support letters from your major advisor and another committee member

Application deadline: Applications must be postmarked no later than March 7, 2008

Submit applications electronically to Ruby Marr (marrruby@creativeconsulting.com)
or mail to:

For more information contact:

Award announcement: Award winners will be announced by March 21, 2008.

Eligible Universities

• Colorado

University of Colorado, EPOB, Dept. of Geography, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research
Colorado State University, Dept. of Biology, Dept. of Forest Science, Dept. of Range Science
University of Denver

• Montana

Montana State University at Bozeman
University of Montana, Dept. of Organismal Biology & Ecology

• Utah

University of Utah
Utah State University at Logan

• Washington

Washington State University, Dept. of Botany

• Wyoming

University of Wyoming, Dept. of Botany

Please note: All future announcements will be made at this address.

Office of Contracts and Grants
The Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) also offers awards for graduate students. Check out the OCG website for more information.