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VIGRE Graduate Fellows

VIGRE Graduate Fellowships are usually awarded when a student begins graduate study.  The award has three parts:

• In the first year, the graduate student has a 5-hour or less (the norm is 10 hrs/wk) Teaching Assistant (TA) load, in order to provide more time for acclimating to graduate school.
• In a later year, depending on the student's schedule, the student is appointed as 15-hour/wk Teaching Associate for a one-semester course. Teaching Associates are apprentice instructors, taking over some aspects of managing the course, doing some teaching under the supervsion of the regular faculty instructor, and discussing pedagogy, time management and other issues that arise, with the regular faculty instructor.
• At a time when it will help propel the student in his/her PhD work, the student is given a semester off all TA and other research duties, freeing up time to work and make significant progress on the dissertation.  Need and budget permitting, this can be repeated more than once for the same student.

VIGRE graduate fellows are also involved in all other aspects of training in the department, participating in vertically integrated research groups (which often provide the inspiration for advanced data analysis projects and dissertation research), participating in mentoring activities, teaching and research teas and department seminars, honing their organizational and communication skills as TA's, and having the opportunity to teach full courses as the main instructor in the Department's summer program.