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Math Biology Seminar

Graduate Funding opportunities

Institutional opportunities

There are several sources of funding available for graduate students, including teaching assistantships, research assistantships and fellowships. All applicants to graduate school are automatically considered for Teaching Assistantships. Research Assistantships are available to advanced students who are working on a research project that is funded by the NSF or NIH. Ask your advisor about this possibility.

The University of Utah offers has a wide variety of Training Grants and Initiatives, many of which offer funding opportunities to graduate students. Some programs that may be of interest to mathematics students include:

• The Utah Genetics Training Program.
• The Cancer Genetics, Epigenetics, Modelings, and Signalling Training Program.
• The Genomic Medicine Training Program.
• The Microbial Pathogenesis Training Program.
• The Computational Approaches to Diabetes and Metabolism Training Program.
• The Immunology, Inflammation, and Infectious Disease Training Grant.

In addition, the University Graduate School offers the Graduate Research Fellowship, which offers one year of research funding to graduate students.

Application to the Math Biology Graduate program is through the Math Department at this graduate program website.

National opportunities

There are several national awards that graduate students are encouraged to apply for.

• In the past, several mathematical biology graduate students at Utah have earned the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
• The Simons Foundation offers a Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics, which supports graduate mathematics students in their fourth and fifth years of study. Applicants must be a third-year at the time of application.
• The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellows Program supports graduate students and their advisors in advancing inclusion and equity in science.
• The National Institutes of Health offers an Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award for students within two years of completing their Ph.D.

Travel Grants

The University of Utah Graduate School offers multiple funding opportunities to students:

• The Early Career Professional Development Program offers up to $500 for first or second-year graduate students to attend a conference. Award recipients do not have to present, but the funds must be matched by another funding source.
• The Graduate Student Travel Assistance Award is a one-time award that provides up to $500 to present research at a conference.
• The Virtual Conference Award provides up to $200 in registration costs for students to present at virtual conferences.

There are also multiple annual conferences that offer funding to graduate students:

• The Society for Mathematical Biology offers the Landahl Travel Grant for junior researchers to attend the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting.
• The Society for Mathematical Biology also offers a Travel Grant that provides up to $750 for junior scientists to attend a conference other than the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting.
• The American Mathematical Society offers Travel Grants for both Sectional Meetings and Joint Mathematics Meetings.
• The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathmatics (SIAM) offers Travel and Registration Support to graduate students to attend and present at SIAM conferences.