Opportunities for graduate students

Prospective graduate students with a wide variety of interests are encouraged to inquire as to whether they might perform their graduate research in the Townsend Lab. Fields of interest include, but are not limited to, molecular evolutionary biology, population genetics and genomics, and computational biology.

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Admission as a graduate student

A UConn Ph. D. is a good deal

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Apply for these fellowships for graduate study:

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

Food & Agriculture Graduate Fellowship

Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities

Claire M. Berg Fellowship for Female Genetics Graduate Students

Pfizer Summer Fellowship in Molecular and Cell Biology

UNCF•Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowship

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Apply for these sources of funding for graduate student research:

Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research

DeLill Nasser Award for Courses or Conferences in Genetics

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Apply for postdoctoral position