Teaching Assistantships & Summer Support

The Department of Biology offers several Teaching Assistantships for MS and PhD students on a competitive basis.

The MS Teaching Assistantship includes a full tuition award, a 9-month stipend of $16,500, and 75% of student health insurance at TCU. The award is renewable for a second year, based on satisfactory performance in the first. The work load is no more than 20 hours per week during the 9-month academic year, and most students are assigned to teach labs in either Introductory Biology I & II (BIOL 10501/10511) or Contemporary Issues in Biology (BIOL 10003).

In addition, MS students may apply for a competitive internal award, the Adkins Fellowship, to provide $3,600 in summer stipend in support of their thesis research between the first and second year.

For Ph.D. students, the Department of Biology also offers a small number of Teaching Assistantships (full tuition award, a 12-month stipend of $25,000, and 75% of student health insurance at TCU) and one Green Fellowship that is awarded on a competitive basis for a single year (full tuition award, a 12-month stipend of $26,000 with no teaching responsibilities, 75% of student health insurance at TCU).

Adkins Fellowship

All graduate students whose major professor is in the Department of Biology are invited to submit grant proposals to the biology Committee on Graduate Studies to receive up to three months of summer support between their first and second years. Proposals will be evaluated by the committee, and funds will be awarded on a competitive basis to students with proposals deemed to contain the most scientific merit. All recipients of the Adkins fellowships are required to have a committee meeting during the third semester to discuss research progress. Please consult your faculty mentor for additional information.